Similar words: overheard, shakespeare, speak, pear, head, pearl, ahead, bespeak. Meaning: n. 1. someone who leads or initiates an activity (attack or campaign etc.) 2. the leading military unit in an attack 3. the head and sharpened point of a spear. v. be the leader of.
(31) They will be replaced as the UK's Spearhead Land Element by 42 Royal Commando.
(32) The marines went ashore as a spearhead this morning to capture key targets.
(33) Entrepreneurs, rather than civil servants , are required to spearhead efforts at industrial renewal.