Synonyms for spearhead
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : speer-hed |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈspɪərˌhɛd |
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Définition of spearhead
Origin :- c.1400, from spear (n.1) + head (n.). Figurative sense of "leading element" (of an attack, movement, etc.) is attested from 1893; the verb in this sense is recorded from 1938. Related: Spearheaded; spearheading.
- verb lead, start
- At length the spearhead was ready for the finishing touches.
- Extract from : « The Later Cave-Men » by Katharine Elizabeth Dopp
- And every movement of the bison had driven the spearhead deeper.
- Extract from : « The Later Cave-Men » by Katharine Elizabeth Dopp
- While Chipper worked at a spearhead, the other men were moving about.
- Extract from : « The Later Cave-Men » by Katharine Elizabeth Dopp
- Fig. 201 represents a spearhead of iron from Brandenburg, North Germany.
- Extract from : « The Swastika » by Thomas Wilson
- Here the soil was firm, and the spearhead had to be forced home.
- Extract from : « Captured at Tripoli » by Percy F. Westerman
- A spearhead grazed his scalp, and smashed a tile behind him.
- Extract from : « Dragon's blood » by Henry Milner Rideout
- A shaft that had been procured some days previously was fished out from its hiding-place, and fitted to the spearhead.
- Extract from : « Sea-Dogs All! » by Tom Bevan
- Stan's ship formed the spearhead of a sharp V. O'Malley refused to keep still.
- Extract from : « A Yankee Flier with the R.A.F. » by Rutherford G. Montgomery
- On each rope, six feet from the spearhead, is a fathom mark made by tying on a rag or cord.
- Extract from : « Boy Scouts Handbook » by Boy Scouts of America
- The gifts may range from two death blankets, worth 16 pesos, to a spearhead worth 0.20 peso.
- Extract from : « Ifugao Law » by R. F. Burton
Antonyms for spearhead
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