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  • n  the head and sharpened point of a spear

  • Thus he believes that if his spear has wounded an enemy who escaped, he can make the wound fester by thrusting the spearpoint into a fire.
  • The name comes from the 1933 discovery of a fluted stone spearpoint dated to that era in a pile of mammoth bones near Clovis, New Mexico.
  • But living as they are at what she calls "the spearpoint" of civilization, bombarded by TV and stereo sounds, they are becoming, she says, "psychic mutants.
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  • Ancient relics found at Stone Point
    The trail of Winona history may have just gotten a thousand years longer. A recent examination suggests that a spearpoint or arrowhead discovered near the former county landfill may be one of the oldest ever found in Winona County.
    Nov. 6, 2013 - Winona Post

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