• Shareni
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    5 months ago

    How is this not a spear?

    Even the shoebill stork has a pointy end

    • ricecake@sh.itjust.works
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      5 months ago

      Less the long and narrow and more how it’s used.

      A fishing net is also long and narrow, but we usually wouldn’t call it a spear because that’s not how you use it. If you spear something with your net you’ve made a mistake.

      Personally, I’d say a duck beak is “spoonish”, and the fish hunters are “grabby”. Some are tweezery, and some are tongy.