'Spear side' definitions:
Definition of 'Spear side'
From: GCIDE
- Spear \Spear\, n. [OE. spere, AS. spere; akin to D. & G. speer, OS. & OHS. sper, Icel. spj["o]r, pl., Dan. spaer, L. sparus.]
- 1. A long, pointed weapon, used in war and hunting, by thrusting or throwing; a weapon with a long shaft and a sharp head or blade; a lance.
- Note: [See Illust. of Spearhead.] "A sharp ground spear." --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. --Micah iv. 3. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Fig.: A spearman. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A sharp-pointed instrument with barbs, used for stabbing fish and other animals. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A shoot, as of grass; a spire. [1913 Webster]
- 5. The feather of a horse. See Feather, n., 4. [1913 Webster]
- 6. The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod. [1913 Webster]
- Spear foot, the off hind foot of a horse.
- Spear grass. (Bot.) (a) The common reed. See Reed, n., 1. (b) meadow grass. See under Meadow.
- Spear hand, the hand in which a horseman holds a spear; the right hand. --Crabb.
- Spear side, the male line of a family. --Lowell.
- Spear thistle (Bot.), the common thistle ({Cnicus lanceolatus}). [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'spear side'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- affiliation,
- agnate,
- ancestry,
- apparentation,
- birth,
- blood,
- blood relation,
- blood relative,
- bloodline,
- branch,
- breed,
- clansman,
- cognate,
- collateral,
- collateral relative,
- common ancestry,
- connections,
- consanguinean,
- consanguinity,
- derivation,
- descent,
- direct line,
- distaff side,
- distant relation,
- enate,
- extraction,
- family,
- female line,
- filiation,
- flesh,
- flesh and blood,
- folks,
- german,
- house,
- kin,
- kindred,
- kinfolk,
- kinnery,
- kinsfolk,
- kinsman,
- kinsmen,
- kinswoman,
- kith and kin,
- line,
- line of descent,
- lineage,
- male line,
- near relation,
- next of kin,
- people,
- phylum,
- posterity,
- race,
- relations,
- relatives,
- seed,
- sept,
- sib,
- sibling,
- side,
- spear kin,
- spindle kin,
- spindle side,
- stem,
- stirps,
- stock,
- strain,
- succession,
- sword side,
- tribesman,
- uterine kin