speer
English
Alternative forms
- speir, spere
Noun
speer (plural speers)
- (obsolete) sphere
Etymology 2
From Old English spyrian, from Proto-Germanic *spurjaną. Cognate with German spüren, Swedish spörja.
Verb
speer (third-person singular simple present speers, present participle speering, simple past and past participle speered)
- (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for speer in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Anagrams
- Esper, Peers, Perse, Spree, esper, peers, per se, perse, pères, spere, spree
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch spēre, from Old Dutch *speru, from Proto-Germanic *speru.
Pronunciation
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Noun
speer f (plural speren, diminutive speertje n)
- spear
- javelin
Synonyms
- (spear): spies, lans, geer
Meronyms
- schacht
- speerpunt
Derived terms
- speerpunt