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SPEAR
Surname or Lastname
English
English : patronymic from Spear.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Major 1.French : from the same personal name as 1, or from a short form of the personal name Amauger, from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements amal ‘strength’, ‘vigor’ + gÄr, gÄ“r ‘spear’.South German : dialect variant of Maunker, nickname for a morose person.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from the Norman personal name Malg(i)er, Maug(i)er, composed of the Germanic elements madal ‘council’ + gÄr, gÄ“er ‘spear’. The surname is now also established in Ulster.Hungarian : from a shortened form of majorosgazda (see Majoros), or a derivative of German Meyer 1.Polish, Czech, and Slovak : from the military rank major (derived from Latin maior ‘greater’), a word related to English mayor and the German surname Meyer.Catalan and southern French (Occitan) : from major ‘major’ (Latin maior ‘greater’), denoting a prominent or important person or the first-born son of a family.Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : variant of Meyer 2.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from the Norman personal name Gervase, composed of the Germanic element gÄri, gÄ“r ‘spear’ + a second element of uncertain meaning and original form. The name was borne by a saint, martyred under the Roman Emperor Domitian, who became one of the patrons of Milan.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name for someone who lived in a lane, Middle English, Old English lane, originally a narrow way between fences or hedges, later used to denote any narrow pathway, including one between houses in a town.Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Laighin ‘descendant of Laighean’, a byname meaning ‘spear’, or ‘javelin’.Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Luain ‘descendant of Luan’, a byname meaning ‘warrior’.Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Liatháin (see Lehane).Southern French : variant of Laine.Possibly also a variant of Southern French Lande.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from the Middle English personal name Leugar, Levegar, Old English LÄ“ofgÄr, composed of the elements lÄ“of ‘dear’ + gÄr ‘spear’.Gallician and Spanish : habitational name from any of several places in Galicia called Lugar, from lugar ‘place’ ‘village’, or a topographic name from this word.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from Middle English spere ‘spear’, hence a nickname for a tall, thin person, or else for a skilled user of the hunting spear. In part it may also have been a metonymic occupational name for a maker of spears
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English
English : occupational name for a soldier armed with a spear, from Middle English spere ‘spear’ + man.English : from the Middle English, Old English personal name Spereman, of the same origin as the occupational name above.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : patronymic from Spear.
Boy/Male
American, British, English
Spear-man
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Danish and Norwegian
Danish and Norwegian : patronymic from the personal name Ivar, from Old Norse Ãvarr, a compound of either Ãv ‘yew tree’, ‘bow’ or Ing (the name of a god) + ar ‘warrior’ or ‘spear’.North German (Frisian) : patronymic from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements Ä«wa ‘yew (tree)’ + hard ‘strong’, ‘firm’.English : variant spelling of Iverson.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Spear.
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French (Jérôme) and English
French (Jérôme) and English : from the medieval
personal name Jérôme (French), Jerome (English),
from Greek HierÅnymos (see Hieronymus). This achieved
some popularity in France and elsewhere, being bestowed in honor of St
Jerome (?347–420), creator of the Vulgate, the standard Latin
version of the Bible.English (of Norman origin) : from a personal
name, Gerram, composed of the Germanic elements gÄr, gÄ“r ‘spear’ + hraban ‘raven’.A Jerome is recorded in Montreal in 1655 with the secondary
surnames Beaune and Leblanc. Another bearer of the name,
from Brittany, is recorded in Montreal in 1705 with the secondary
surname
Boy/Male
English
Spear.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from a Norman personal name, Leodegar, Old French Legier, of Germanic origin, composed of the elements liut ‘people’, ‘tribe’ + gÄr, gÄ“r ‘spear’. The name was borne by a 7th-century bishop of Autun, whose fame contributed to the popularity of the name in France. (In Germany the name was connected with a different saint, an 8th-century bishop of Münster.)English : variant of Letcher, in part a deliberate alteration to avoid the association with Middle English lecheor ‘lecher’.
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : patronymic from the Old Norse personal name Ãvarr, a compound of either Ãv ‘yew tree’, ‘bow’ or Ing (the name of a god) + ar ‘warrior’ or ‘spear’.Swedish equivalent of Iversen 1.Respelling of Danish, Norwegian, and North German Iversen.
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English
English : from the Germanic personal name Lanzo, originally a short form of various compound names with the first element land ‘land’, ‘territory’ (for example, Lambert), but later used as an independent name. It was introduced to England by the Normans, for whom it was a popular name among the ruling classes, perhaps partly because of association with Old French lance ‘lance’, ‘spear’ (see 2).French : metonymic name for a soldier who carried a lance, or a nickname for a skilled fighter, from Old French lance.
Boy/Male
British, English
Spear-man
Boy/Male
British, English
Spear-man
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Matter.English : probably a metonymic occupational name for a mattress maker or seller, from Middle English, Old French materas, or less likely for a maker of crossbow bolts, spears, and lances, from the Middle English homonym materas.Dutch : variant of Matter 2.
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n.
A fish spear.
a.
Having the form of a spear.
v. i.
To grow or shoot up like a spear; as, upspearing grass.
n.
One who is armed with a spear.
v. t.
To pierce with a spear; to kill with a spear; as, to spear a fish.
n.
A three-pronged spear or goad, used for urging horses; also, the weapon used by one class of gladiators.
n.
An Australian tree (Acacia Doratoxylon), and its tough wood, used by the natives for spears.
n.
A name given to several species of crowfoot (Ranunculus) which have spear-shaped leaves.
n.
The pointed head, or end, of a spear.
n.
A round of iron on the shaft of a tilting spear, to protect the hand.
n.
One who uses a spear; as, a spearer of fish.
imp. & p. p.
of Spear
pl.
of Spearman
n.
The point or extremity of anything; a pointed or somewhat sharply rounded end; the end; as, the tip of the finger; the tip of a spear.
n.
Fig.: A spearman.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Spear
n.
A boat with an open well amidships. It is used in spearing fish.
n.
A kind of scepter or spear with three prongs, -- the common attribute of Neptune.
n.
A three-pronged fish spear.
n.
A short staff, a club; a cudgel; a shaft of a spear.