a. [f. SPEAR sb.1] Resembling a spear in shape; pointed like a spear.

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1763.  Mills, Pract. Husb., III. 282. The lobes are small, spear-shaped, and hoary on their under side.

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1796.  Withering, Brit. Plants (ed. 3), I. 203. Petals … spear-shaped, rather flat, but a little bent inwards. Ibid., III. 625. Thorns simple and compound: leaves spear-shaped.

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1831.  Scott, Ct. Robt., xxiii. The tent … was raised upon tall spear-shaped poles.

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1837.  P. Keith, Bot. Lex., 360. Appendages … varying much in form in different species, as awl-shaped, spear-shaped, half-arrow-shaped.

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1908.  Sir H. Johnston, G. Grenfell & the Congo, II. xxvii. 788. The paddles along the main course of the Congo are generally spear-shaped.

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