Crossword clues for spearing
spearing
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Spear \Spear\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Speared; p. pr. & vb. n. Spearing.] To pierce with a spear; to kill with a spear; as, to spear a fish.
Wiktionary
n. The stabbing of something with a spear. vb. (present participle of spear English)
Wikipedia
Spearing is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- A. C. Spearing (born 1936), Professor of English at the University of Virginia
- James Z. Spearing (1864–1942), American politician
- Jay Spearing (born 1988), English footballer
- Nigel Spearing (born 1930), English politician
- Tony Spearing (born 1964), English footballer
Spearing or spear tackling is a method of tackling in American and Canadian football in which a player uses their body as a spear (head out, arms by their side), whether it be in attack or defence. It is considered legal as long as players do not make initial contact with their head. Illegal use of a spear in gridiron results in either a 15-yard penalty if the offensive player commits the foul or an automatic first down if it is the defensive player.
It is a common cause of catastrophic cervical spinal cord injuries, which result from axial loading. Recognition of such injuries resulted in rule changes in 1976, banning such tackles for high school and college football, after which incidence of these injuries dropped significantly. For example, incidence of quadriplegia decreased from 2.24 and 10.66 per 100,000 participants in high school and college football in 1976, to 1.30 and 2.66 per 100,000 participants in 1977.
Usage examples of "spearing".
They pretended to hunt, spearing pieces of meat from the cold storage chambers, and cooked it.
I saw Oengus mac Airem, his beard soaked with Saxon blood, spearing yet more Sais.
Gorokuro, who wore a headband, was spearing two-hundred-pound rice bags and flinging them in the air in a show of apparently superhuman strength.
I spent long afternoons remembering, and spearing sandfish and shohi and silvertail.
He, the proud Soli, was well pleased with himself for rising to his humanity and not spearing the Timekeeper.
Lance Corporal Schultz only hesitated an instant when he saw the headless centaurs spearing the Skinks.