boar-spear

English

Noun

boar-spear (plural boar-spears)

A spear used for hunting boar.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  And still the foster with his long bore-speare / Him kept from landing at his wished will […]

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