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muskrat spear
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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See 1939 quote.
See: rat spear
Quotations
1914
. . . and the Indians rushed forward and drove muskrat spears into the poor fellow's body, tearing them out again to increase his torture.
1939
I was interested in the large supply of muskrat spears which the men said we had to take. These were two and a half inch spears attached to nine inch rods of iron made by Company blacksmiths from rod iron brought from England.