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Spear v.2. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1919, rev. 2025. Spear v.2 Also 6–7 speer. [Irregular variant of SPIRE v. Cf. SPEAR sb.2] intr. Of corn, etc.: To sprout, germinate. Also with out.

1 1573.  Tusser, Husb. (1878), 174. Malt being well speered, the more it will cast.

2 1651.  R. Child, in Hartlib’s Legacy (1655), 91. Rooks, which pluck up in light land presently after the Corn speareth, much Corn.

3 1678.  Phil. Trans., XII. 946. As soon as the Heads begin to shoot or speer within the ground … howe or pare the ground all over very thin.

4 a. 1722.  Lisle, Husb. (1757), 114. Fourteen barley-corns of the twenty had put forth roots, but had not speared. Ibid., 139. In turning up wet wheat straw … I found … many loose grains speared out.

5 1763.  Mills, Pract. Husb., III. 156. That surface must be so fine, and so lightly compressed, that the seed may spear through it.

6 a. 1825–.  in dial. glossaries (Yks., E. Anglia, Kent, Surrey, Sussex, etc.).

7 1886.  Science, VII. 174/1. The single blade ‘spears’ first into three, then into five or more side-shoots.

8   Hence Speared ppl. a.2; Spearing vbl. sb.2

9 1577–82.  Breton, Toyes Idle Head, Wks. (Grosart), I. 58/2. What their shiftes should be,… by speered Mault the Bruer soone will see.

10 1707.  Mortimer, Husb. (1721), II. 23. You may prepare them for spearing by laying the [Ash-] Keys in Earth or Sand.

11 1765.  Museum Rust., III. 151. It would have been better … if more of it had been grown last year, when the wheat was almost all speared.

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