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- noun Plural form of
spearer .
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Examples
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So, mantis shrimp come in two varieties: there are spearers and smashers.
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So, mantis shrimp come in two varieties: there are spearers and smashers.
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So, mantis shrimp come in two varieties: there are spearers and smashers.
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From the village below came snatches of song and the shrill wail of a pipe; and as the night deepened they saw, far out on the water, the wild flare of the fish-spearers 'torches, like comets in an inverted sky.
The Valley of Decision Edith Wharton 1899
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But occasionally some evidence of their exploits came to light, and Mr. Tyers became aware that his black police considered themselves as living among hostile tribes, in respect of whom they had a double duty to perform, viz., to track cattle spearers at the order of their chief, and on their own account to shoot as many of their enemies as they could conveniently approach.
The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned George Dunderdale 1862
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He also wanted to go a little way farther out and up the bay -- that is to say, out into the world in a ship -- but his mother said, like the eel-breeder, "There are so many bad people -- eel spearers!"
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_He_ likewise wanted to go a little way outside the door, and up the bay -- that is to say, out into the world in a ship; and his mother said, like the eel breeder, "There are so many bad people -- eel spearers!"
What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales Alfred Walter Bayes 1840
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Thousands of spearers are expected to head out on Lake Winnebago and the Upriver Lakes Saturday for the annual event.
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Thousands of spearers are expected to head out on Lake Winnebago and the Upriver Lakes Saturday for the annual event.
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Dozens of spearers caught fish that weighed at least 100 pounds.
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