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spearhead
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Spearhead \Spear"head`\, n. The pointed head, or end, of a spear.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The pointed head, or end, of a spear. 2 One who leads or initiates an activity (such as an attack or a campaign). 3 The leading military unit in an attack. 4 (lb en sports) A player who initiates attacking moves. vb. (context transitive English) To drive or campaign ardently for, ''as'' an effort, project, etc.
WordNet
n. someone who leads or initiates an activity (attack or campaign etc.)
the leading military unit in an attack
the head and sharpened point of a spear [syn: spearpoint, spear-point]
v. be the leader of; "She spearheded the effort to find a cure for the disease"
Wikipedia
A spearhead is the sharpened bellend tip (head) of a spear. It is often a separate piece called a projectile point.
Spearhead may also refer to:
Spearhead is an EP by Bolt Thrower. It is recorded at Sawmill studios, produced by Colin Richardson and Bolt Thrower, engineered by John Cornfield. Mixed at Fon studios September 1992, engineered by Alan Fisch and Steve Harris. It is released on Earache Records: Mosh 73 in February 1993, and is now deleted.
Spearhead is a British television drama series. Produced by Southern Television and broadcast on the ITV network, it ran for a total of three series and 19 episodes from 1978 to 1981. It featured the daily lives of a group of soldiers in 'B' Company, 1st Battalion Royal Wessex Rangers, a fictional British Army infantry regiment. The series is regarded as an accurate depiction of life at that time for soldiers in the army.
Spearhead was a British far right-wing magazine edited by John Tyndall until his death in July 2005. Founded in 1964 by Tyndall, it was used to voice his grievances against the state of the United Kingdom. The magazine has not continued under new editorship, although a new article appeared on the magazine's website in October 2010.
From 1967 to 1980, it served as the official mouthpiece of the National Front, mirroring its editor's involvement in this organisation. Opponents of its editor's political views regard it as an outlet for racist and neo-Nazi material, although Tyndall himself denied these accusations.
While Tyndall was leader of the British National Party, he used the magazine as a platform for promoting the policies of the BNP. When he lost the leadership election to Nick Griffin he started to use it to attack the current BNP leadership. In the light of this, along with the very much more 'hardline' opinions carried by the publication, which were not considered to be in line with current BNP thinking, the BNP consequently decided to prohibit the sale of Spearhead at BNP meetings. Tyndall was also expelled for related reasons, although he was later readmitted following an out-of-court settlement with the party. He was subsequently expelled again before his death.
A former editor of the magazine (of which Spearhead had several, in addition to Tyndall himself), until Tyndall's split-off in 1980, was Richard Verrall, a noted Holocaust denier, and then National Front ideologue.
The magazine had a limited circulation and was not easily obtainable in most British newsagents, and most public libraries refused to accept copies because of what was generally felt to be the racist tone of the publication. It was largely distributed by mail order subscription, and it had and still has a considerable Internet presence, with many of its articles being published on the magazine's website. This is still online, with a new article appearing on the site in October 2010. The site also contains a catalogue of books considered to be relevant to the magazine's themes and ideas; although many of these books contain far-right content, often taking the form of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, there are some more surprising entries, such as George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Greg Palast's The Best Democracy Money Can Buy. There are also many books promoting Social Credit, two books by David Icke and three by Richard Body.
In July 2010, Spearhead made a return as a bi-monthly magazine of the National Front although Valerie Tyndall, Tyndall's wife, made a complaint on the Spearhead archive website that the return of Spearhead has been made in the interests of a former foe of Tyndall, Erik Ericksson, and that it was not in the interest of Tyndall to have Spearhead in continuation after his death. Valerie also claimed that "Erik Ericksson" was the nom de plume of Eddy Morrison.
Usage examples of "spearhead".
Flip raising her hand and getting an assistant, Flip spearheading the antismoking campaign that had made me suggest the paddock to Shirl, who had told us about the bellwether.
Fed on scraps of gristle, isolated from his kind, beaten when he failed to make his daily quota of spearheads and arrowpoints, he had shyly retreated into beautifully interminable labyrinths of abstraction.
She thought of the man called Kennedy who forged spearheads and arrowpoints for her peoplehe was a strange one, touched by the goddess, which proved her infinite power.
The sudden brightness gleamed off spearheads, axheads, swordguards, shield bosses, where weapons rested near the entry.
Her targe beat aside a spearhead, and then the backsword flicked out in a blurring thrust.
Centuries ago the boys who found the cave realized that if they chose as their hero a skeleton with a spearhead inside the crushed rib cage, it would be a hero who had somehow failed.
CD inspectors will see the spearhead of the Republican army destroyed by nukes, and think the Dons did it.
The Rebels spread out, with tanks spearheading, and began hammering their way south.
The mighty machine of war called the Rebels surged forward at first light, pushing hard behind the spearheading tanks.
The Rebels, with armor spearheading, smashed more than two miles into punk territory that first day, from two directions: the north and the east.
Germany had nearly a quarter million men on the southern front, spearheaded by a thousand tanks and self-propelled assault guns, thirty-five hundred artillery pieces and mortars.
The thundercracks echoed across the fields towards the wood, and before the sound of the last died the Hyerne were charging at a bounding run through the waist-high wheat, plumes nodding, whetted spearheads glinting, cocked back over their right shoulders.
Tifari Amu and his comrade Bizan lounged before their tent, whetting their spearheads and conversing.
But during the last couple of decades theoretical progress spearheaded by the late Irish physicist John Bell and the experimental results of Alain Aspect and his collaborators have shown convincingly that Einstein was wrong.
Now, though, as we near the millennium, we have a new breed of feminist gumshoes, spearheaded by Sharon McCone, V.