Meaning of spearplay | Babel Free

Definitions

Fighting (or practice exercises) with spears.

uncountable

Examples

“The farmer or the potter or the merchant takes down his father's old spear, puts the old armor on, practices the spearplay, takes his place in the ranks, and goes through the drill as is expected of him.”

“What this spear-play reveals is something central to Homer, and to many of the arguments about Homer which have raged over the past two centuries.”

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