speer

See also Speer

English

Alternative forms

• spere

Noun

speer (plural speers)

1. (obsolete) sphere

Verb

speer (third-person singular simple present speers, present participle speering, simple past and past participle speered)

1. (Scotland) to ask, to inquire

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

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Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *speri

Noun

speer f (plural speren, diminutive speertje)

1. spear

Synonyms

• (spear): spies, lans, geer

Meronyms

• schacht
• speerpunt

Derived terms

• speerpunt