Spear

1. n. The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod.
2. n. A long, pointed weapon, used in war and hunting, by thrusting or throwing; a weapon with a long shaft and a sharp head or blade; a lance.
3. n. Fig.: A spearman.
4. n. A sharp-pointed instrument with barbs, used for stabbing fish and other animals.
5. n. A shoot, as of grass; a spire.
6. n. The feather of a horse. See Feather, n., 4.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.