Definitions
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- adjective Resembling a
spear .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Even the name is a little chilling, recalling a medieval spearlike weapon as well as a ferocious fish.
Try Pike On The Fly 2009
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She gazed upon those chiseled granite features, the sharp angle of his jaw, the stubborn chin, the hooded eyes whose flinty gaze could penetrate with spearlike precision.
Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011
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She gazed upon those chiseled granite features, the sharp angle of his jaw, the stubborn chin, the hooded eyes whose flinty gaze could penetrate with spearlike precision.
Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011
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She gazed upon those chiseled granite features, the sharp angle of his jaw, the stubborn chin, the hooded eyes whose flinty gaze could penetrate with spearlike precision.
Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011
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The war wagons were mobile walls of metal, each crowned with a spearlike palisade.
Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon Matt Forbeck 2010
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One long spearlike hand aimed at twelve, the other, shorter hand at eleven.
Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010
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Research associate Craig Lee said the spearlike wooden dart had been frozen in an ice sheet for 10,000 years and became bowed as the ice melted.
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The war wagons were mobile walls of metal, each crowned with a spearlike palisade.
Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon Matt Forbeck 2010
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Research associate Craig Lee said the spearlike wooden dart had been frozen in an ice sheet for 10,000 years and became bowed as the ice melted.
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One long spearlike hand aimed at twelve, the other, shorter hand at eleven.
Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010
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