spearing

[ speer-ing ]
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nounIce Hockey.
  1. an illegal check in which a player jabs an opponent with the end of the stick blade or the top end of the stick, resulting in a penalty.

Origin of spearing

1
1770–80, for literal sense; spear1 + -ing1

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How to use spearing in a sentence

  • Dear Aunt Kitty: I'm up here spearing salmon and all that sort of thing, don't you know, and trying to forget.

    The Tigress | Anne Warner
  • The door was open, and a torch was spearing its beam on two men—one kneeling over the prone figure of the other.

    Unwise Child | Gordon Randall Garrett
  • In the summer months they frequent the sea-coast, where their skill in spearing fish is described as quite wonderful.