boar-spear
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Noun
[edit]boar-spear (plural boar-spears)
- A spear used for hunting boar.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- And still the foster with his long bore-speare / Him kept from landing at his wished will […]