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to penetrate or hold (something) with a pointed object
- she speared a pea with her fork and angrily flung it
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“Spear.” The Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spear. Accessed 7 December 2019.
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The first known use of spear was before the 12th century
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