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Definition: SPONTOON |
SPONTOONNoun1. A kind of half-pike, or halberd, formerly borne by inferior officers of the British infantry, and used in giving signals to the soldiers. |
Date "SPONTOON" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1814. (references) |
Etymology: Spontoon \Spon*toon"\, noun. [French expression sponton, esponton, it. spontone, spuntone.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Arms | Pike, lance, spear, spontoon, javelin, dart, jereed, jerid, arrow, reed, shaft, bolt, boomerang, harpoon, gaff; eelspear, oxgoad, weet-weet, wommerah; cattle prod; chemical mace. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: SPONTOON |
| English words defined with "SPONTOON": Half-pike. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
spontoon | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "SPONTOON"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Vietnamese | cái giáo (spear). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "SPONTOON": spontoons. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: pontoons. | |
| Words within the letters "n-n-o-o-o-p-s-t" | |
-1 letter: nonstop, pontons, pontoon. | |
-2 letters: ponton. | |
-3 letters: noons, poons, snoop, snoot, spoon, stoop, toons, topos. | |
-4 letters: noon, onto, oops, oots, opts, pons, poon, post, pots, snot, soon, soot, spot, stop, tons, toon, tops. | |
-5 letters: noo, nos, not, ons, oot, ops, opt, pot, son, sop, sot, ton, too, top. | |
| Words containing the letters "n-n-o-o-o-p-s-t" | |
+1 letter: spontoons. | |
+4 letters: monophthongs, protonations, zooplanktons. | |
+5 letters: gonadotropins, monopsonistic, nondeposition, prolongations. | |
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