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Rustum...hurl’d — Spear

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"Rustum...hurl’d His spear: down from the shoulder, down it came, As on some partridge in the corn a hawk That long has tower’d in the airy clouds Drops like a plummet."
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A spear is a polearm consisting of a shaft, usually of wood, with a pointed head. The head may be simply the sharpened end of the shaft itself, as is the case with fire hardened spears, or it may be made of a more durable material fastened to the shaft, such as bone, flint, obsidian, copper, bronze, iron, or steel. The most common design for hunting and/or warfare, since modern times has incorpora