spearpoint

[ speer-point ]

noun

Origin of spearpoint

late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; see origin at spear¹, point

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In those earlier elephant experiments, spearpoints often pierced the animals’ hides.
Clovis hunters’ reputation as mammoth killers takes a hit | Bruce Bower | January 11, 2022 | Science News
Then, 500,000 years ago, technological change accelerated, as spearpoints, firemaking, axes, beads, and bows appeared.
How a Handful of Prehistoric Geniuses Launched Humanity’s Technological Revolution | Nicholas R. Longrich | January 7, 2022 | Singularity Hub
Then, 500,000 years ago, technological change accelerated, as spearpoints, firemaking, axes, beads and bows appeared.
How Africa’s prehistoric geniuses led a technological revolution | Nicholas R. Longrich | January 6, 2022 | Quartz
Roughly 9,000 years ago, a woman in Peru’s Andes Mountains was buried with spearpoints and other hunting tools.
This prehistoric woman from Peru hunted big game | Bruce Bower | December 2, 2020 | Science News For Students
A woman buried with spearpoints and other hunting tools roughly 9,000 years ago in Peru’s Andes Mountains has reemerged to claim the title of the oldest known female big-game hunter in the Americas.
Female big-game hunters may have been surprisingly common in the ancient Americas | Bruce Bower | November 4, 2020 | Science News

Mallory raised his hand to his helmet and felt the sizable dent that the spearpoint had made.
A Knyght Ther Was | Robert F. Young
It is, however, occasionally seen on articles of stone, as the spearpoint and stone hatchet and sacrificial knife.
Day Symbols of the Maya Year | Cyrus Thomas
A stone spearpoint or arrowhead was laid on each lozenge-like tip of the zigzag lightning.
The Winter Solstice Altars at Hano Pueblo | J. Walter Fewkes
The army was the spearpoint of Prussia; the rest was merely the haft.
Winning a Cause | John Gilbert Thompson and Inez Bigwood
The Bird leaped into the air, his crest a bloody spearpoint.
Shaman | Robert Shea

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