spearer
One who impales
A spearer is one who spears—a person who hunts or fishes using a spear: The spearer waited motionless above the reef.
The term applies to spearfishers and to those who use spears for hunting or combat.
Certain mantis shrimp are called spearers for their stabbing appendages, distinguished from smashers that strike with blunt force.
Monitoring location over time
- stalkingStealthy, persistent pursuit
- quarryPit for extracting rock
- preyAnimal being hunted
- ambushSurprise strike from concealment
game · pursuit · foraging · wilderness · outdoorsman · survivalist · trapper · safari
Forceful forward motion
impale · skewer · plunge · aim · targeting · accuracy · dexterity · skill
Throwing spear for sport
- harpoonBarbed spear for whales
- tridentThree-pronged fishing spear
- lanceLong thrusting weapon
- pikeLong battlefield spear
gig · polearm · bayonet · halberd · gladiator · phalanx · legionnaire · glaive
Pre-farming subsistence lifestyle
- NeolithicFinal prehistoric stone-tool era
- PaleolithicEarliest archaeological era
- prehistoricBefore documented civilization
- tribesmanMember of indigenous group
caveman · flintknapper · nomad · forager · ancestor · stone tools · megafauna · mastodon
tracking
Monitoring location over time
ambush · game · pursuit · foraging · wilderness · outdoorsman · survivalist · trapper · safari · huntress
thrust
Forceful forward motion
stab · impale · skewer · plunge · aim · targeting · accuracy · dexterity · skill · focus
javelin
Throwing spear for sport
pike · gig · polearm · bayonet · halberd · gladiator · phalanx · legionnaire · glaive · vanguard
hunter-gatherer
Pre-farming subsistence lifestyle
- NeolithicFinal prehistoric stone-tool era
- PaleolithicEarliest archaeological era
- prehistoricBefore documented civilization
tribesman · caveman · flintknapper · nomad · forager · ancestor · stone tools · megafauna · mastodon · hominid
- Britney Spears
- spear gunUnderwater projectile weapon
- spear fishingHunting fish underwater with pole
- tip of the spearForemost element of advance
- pickle spearLengthwise-cut brined cucumber
- spear pointSharpened head of throwing weapon
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