spear

Hockey

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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check an opposing player by thrusting the blade of the stick into some part of his body, especially his stomach.

Quotations

1963

Defense star Doug Harvey confessed: "I spear any forward who runs interference and sticks too close."

1964

At one point, Brewer the Leafs' bad man, speared Stan Mikita, which is to say he rammed the business end of his hockey stick into Mikita's stomach.

1966

It was said he speared Phil Goyette so severely that [he] will need a month to convalesce.