spear vs tomahawk

spear

noun
  • An illegal maneuver using the end of a hockey stick to strike into another hockey player. 

  • The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod. 

  • A long, thin strip from a vegetable. 

  • The sprout of a plant, stalk 

  • In professional wrestling, a running tackle in which the wrestler's shoulder is driven into the opponent's midsection. 

  • A shoot, as of grass; a spire. 

  • A lance with barbed prongs, used by fishermen to retrieve fish. 

  • A long stick with a sharp tip used as a weapon for throwing or thrusting, or anything used to make a thrusting motion. 

  • A soldier armed with such a weapon; a spearman. 

  • The feather of a horse. 

verb
  • To penetrate or strike with, or as if with, any long narrow object; to make a thrusting motion that catches an object on the tip of a long device. 

  • To pierce with a spear. 

  • To tackle an opponent by ramming into them with one's helmet. 

  • To shoot into a long stem, as some plants do. 

adj
  • Pertaining to male family members. 

  • Male. 

tomahawk

noun
  • A field hockey shot style that involves a player turning their hockey stick upside-down and swinging it so that its inside edge will come into contact with the ball. 

  • An ax used by Native American warriors. 

  • A dunk performed with one's arm behind one's head. 

  • A geometric construction consisting of a semicircle and two line segments that serves as a tool for trisecting an angle; so called from its resemblance to the American Indian axe. 

verb
  • To perform a tomahawk dunk. 

  • To strike or cut up with a tomahawk. 

  • To girdle or incise the trees around (an area of land) so as to claim ownership of it. 

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