boar-spear

English

Noun

boar-spear (plural boar-spears)

1. A spear used for hunting boar.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     And still the foster with his long bore-speare / Him kept from landing at his wished will […]