shake-spearadj.
That brandishes a spear (tr. Greek δορυσσόος).Apparently an isolated use.
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shake-spear1853
1853 M. J. Chapman tr. Theocritus Idyll xxii. xvii Castor..The brass-mailed, shake-spear knight.
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adj.1853- to throw, put, one's weight behind
- to thrum buttons
- to thrum caps
- to thrust a person's nose out of joint
- to thrust a thing down a person's throat
- to thrust down a person's throat
- to thrust one's nose in
- to thrust one's nose into
- to thrust one's tongue in one's cheek
- to thrust or run one's head in a bush
- to thrust out
- to thrust, to the wall
- to thug it out
- to thumb one's nose
- to thumb the belt of
- to thump a cushion, the pulpit
- to thump down
- to thump it
- to thunder and lighten
- to thwite a mill-post etc to a pudding-prick
- to thwite a mill-post to a pudding-prick
- to thwite a millpost etc to a puddingprick
- to thwite a millpost to a puddingprick
- to thy
- to tick all the boxes