speer

¹

or speir, spier

[ speer ]

verb (used with or without object)

1. Chiefly Scot. to ask; inquire.

Speer

²

[ speer; German shpeyr ]

noun

1. Al·bert [al, -bert, ahl, -be, r, t], 1905–81, German Nazi leader: appointed by Hitler as official Nazi architect.

Word History and Origins

Origin of speer¹

before 900; Middle English speren, spiren, Old English spyrian to make tracks, trace, ask about; cognate with German spüren, Old Norse spyrja to ask; akin to spoor

Example Sentences

They say Speer was physically and sexually abused as a child.

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Speer killed Dickerson in a bid to join the Texas Mafia prison gang, prosecutors said.

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Speer and another inmate, Anibal Canales Jr. were sentenced to death for the killing.

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William Speer, 49, had been set to receive a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville.

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Speer was convicted of the strangling death of Gary Dickerson in July 1997 at the Telford state prison, located near New Boston in northeast Texas.

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