spearpoint
AmericanEtymology
Origin of spearpoint
late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; see origin at spear 1, point
Example Sentences
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And no one looked better in spearpoint collars and sharkskin silk suits than Ray.
From Seattle Times ● May 29, 2022
Day after day, year by year, he labored like a monk, the spearpoint of his pencils seeming to move one atom at a time into place on his gesso boards.
From New York Times ● Jun. 5, 2013
But living as they are at what she calls "the spearpoint" of civilization, bombarded by TV and stereo sounds, they are becoming, she says, "psychic mutants."
From Time Magazine Archive
The name comes from the 1933 discovery of a fluted stone spearpoint dated to that era in a pile of mammoth bones near Clovis, New Mexico.
From Time Magazine Archive
She slipped past the guard’s spearpoint and reached up to his face, pulling loose the half-frozen scarf to plant a kiss upon his mouth.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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