Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An instrument used in spearing salmon.
- noun In heraldry, a bearing representing a three-pronged or four-pronged fish-spear, the prongs being usually barbed.
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Examples
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A salmon-spear, made wholly of wood, lay on the shore, such as they might have used before white men came.
The Maine Woods 1858
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"The trail is washed away by the water!" said one from below, who stood so near the artificial cover of the fugitives, that he might have been struck by the salmon-spear that lay in the bottom of Jasper's canoe.
Pathfinder; or, the inland sea James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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He is all for fowling-piece and salmon-spear, now that pike and musket are out of the question. '
Redgauntlet Walter Scott 1801
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He is all for fowling-piece and salmon-spear, now that pike and musket are out of the question.’
Redgauntlet 2008
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(The salmon-spear is a long ash shaft, with two wooden prongs and a metal barb between them.
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