spear-heads
English
Noun
spear-heads
- plural of spear-head
- 1877, R. Elton Smile, chapter 1, in The Manatitlans; Or a Record of Scientific Explorations in the Andean La Plata, S.A., page 16:
- When surrounded they were still defiant, threatening all who approached with spear-heads attached to short staffs; these were finally struck out of their hands, but they still repelled peaceful overtures, making a formidable show of resistance with teeth and nails.
- 1892, National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland, “Bronze Implements, Weapons, and Ornaments, Scotland”, in Catalogue of the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland, page 137:
- BRONZE SPEAR-HEADS.
In Floor Case, South Side of First Floor.
[The spear-heads of bronze, which, like the socketed axes, belong to a time when casting over a core was practised, are often very fine examples of the founder's art.