boar-spear

English

Noun

boar-spear (plural boar-spears)

  1. A spear used for hunting boar.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.v:
      And still the foster with his long bore-speare / Him kept from landing at his wished will […]
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