a. [f. SPEAR sb.1] Resembling a spear in shape or in sharpness.

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1567.  Maplet, Gr. Forest, 35. The Bulrush hath … two kindes: one … verie blunt and the other is rather Spearelike.

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a. 1593.  Marlowe, trans. 1st Bk. Lucan, 530. Fiery meteors blaz’d in heauen: Now spearlike, long; now like a spreading torch.

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1865.  Tylor, Early Hist. Man., viii. 223. This spear-like fossil.

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1872.  Coues, N. Amer. Birds, 265. A quick thrust of the spear-like bill.

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1884.  Bower & Scott, De Bary’s Phaner., 220. Each of these contains a single spear-like crystal.

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