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spear is a pole weapon used for hunting and combat.
Spear may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
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Spear (comics)
Spear is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
Publication history
Spear first appeared in '' Power Man'' #28 and was created by Don McGregor and Frank Robbins. His full name was revealed in '' F ...
, a Marvel Comics supervillain
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''Spear'' (film), a 2015 Australian film
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Spear (Pokémon), the Japanese name for Beedrill, a Pokémon character
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''The Spear'' (novel), a 1978 novel by James Herbert
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''The Spear'' (painting), a 2010 painting by Brett Murray
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Spear's
''Spear's'' (formerly known as ''Spear's WMS'' or ''Spear's Wealth Management Survey''), founded in 2006 by William Cash, is a bimonthly British magazine for high-net-worth individuals and those in the financial service industries. It has been ca ...
'', a wealth management magazine
Military
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Operation Spear
Operation Spear was a United States operation, conducted by U.S. Marines, in Karabillah, Iraq, announced in June 2005. The main objective was to provide proof of foreign fighters, mainly Syrian, passing through the borders between Iraq and Syri ...
(2005), US military action in Iraq
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SAS ''Spear'', the first submarine of the South African Navy
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SPEAR 3, a European air-to-ground missile
*Spears, slang for
nuclear weapons
People with the name
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Spear (surname) Spear is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Albert Spear (1852–1929), justice on the Maine Supreme Judicial Court and President of the Maine Senate
*Allan Spear (1937–2008), American politician and educator from Minnesota
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Spear Lancaster, 2002 candidate for Governor of Maryland
Sports
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Spear (wrestling)
Strikes are offensive moves in professional wrestling, that can sometimes be used to set up an opponent for a hold or for a throw. There are a wide variety of strikes in pro wrestling, and many are known by several different names. Professional wre ...
, a professional wrestling attack
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Spear tackle
A spear tackle is an illegal tackle in rugby union, rugby league and Australian rules football in which a player lifts another player into the air and drops them so that they land on their back, head or neck. Spear tackles have caused serious inju ...
, head-first thrust into the ground
Other uses
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Spear (liturgy)
The Spear (Greek: λόγχη; Slavonic: ''Копіе́'') or Lance is a liturgical implement used during the Divine Liturgy in the Byzantine Rite of the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Eastern Catholic Churches.
The Spear symbolizes the lance o ...
, used in the Byzantine-Rite Churches
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Cape Spear
Cape Spear (french: Cap d'Espoir) is a headland located on the Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland near St. John's in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. At a longitude of 52°37'W, it is the easternmost point in Canada and North ...
, in Newfoundland, Canada
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Asparagus spear, a stalk of asparagus
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Singapore Prisons Emergency Action Response
The Singapore Prisons Emergency Action Response (SPEAR) is a department within the Singapore Prison Service (SPS).
SPEAR is a highly-trained elite force that is deployed in various high risk special operations and prepared to quell any riots or ...
, a department within the Singapore Prison Service
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Spear Lúin, Irish mythological treasure
* Spear side, the
male line of a family
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SPEAR_System or S.P.E.A.R., a self-defense system based on physics and physiology
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Stanford Positron Electron Asymmetric Ring, an electron-positron collider now part of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource facility
See also
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Justice Spear (disambiguation)
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Speare, a surname
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Spearing (disambiguation)
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Spears (disambiguation)
Spears may refer to:
* A plural of spear
* Spears (surname), people with the surname Spears
* ''Spears'' (album), a 1985 album by Tribal Tech
*Spears, Kentucky
* Kubota Spears, Japanese Top-League rugby team
* Southern Spears, a South African rug ...
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