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spearpoint

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Noun1.spearpoint - the head and sharpened point of a spearspearpoint - the head and sharpened point of a spear
spear-point, spearhead
pike - medieval weapon consisting of a spearhead attached to a long pole or pikestaff; superseded by the bayonet
point - sharp end; "he stuck the point of the knife into a tree"; "he broke the point of his pencil"
lance, spear, shaft - a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon
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The prehistoric mammoths began their precipitous decline nearly 2,000 years before our ancestors turned stone fragments into sophisticated spearpoints at the end of the last ice age.
Sophisticated hunters not to blame for driving mammoths to extinction by Asian News International
The dig at Kent's Cavern near Torquay, Devon, also unearthed the UK's first complete 15,000-yearold "sagaie" - an antler spearpoint.
Ice Age trove at seaside by Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland)
Lula is to announce in the next few weeks the winner of a fiercely contested tender to supply Brazil with 36 modern war jets that will be the spearpoint of the country s air force for the next three decades.
Brazil mulling French war jet buy as Sarkozy visits by Times of Oman (Muscat, Oman)
 
 
 
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