as in to stab
to penetrate or hold (something) with a pointed object
she deftly harpooned a shrimp with her skewer and held it over the fire
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Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 July 2024
The most recent shows the interior entryway of that house; an umbrella jar holds several walking sticks and two ancient Inuit harpoons with whale-bone barbs; on the wall above them hangs a gleaming nineteenth-century harpoon gun.
—Annie Proulx, The New Yorker, 30 June 2024
Using their powerful tongues — which, at least among many Appalachian salamanders, shoot out like a harpoon — salamanders consume enormous quantities of insects.
—Benji Jones, Vox, 18 June 2024
As the nudibranch tries to grasp its prey, the prey fires its tiny harpoons at the nudibranch.
—Helen Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
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Among the accessories are a revolver, compass, fishing rod, harpoon, spear and, of course, the yellow barrels (see the images below).
—Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 July 2024
The most recent shows the interior entryway of that house; an umbrella jar holds several walking sticks and two ancient Inuit harpoons with whale-bone barbs; on the wall above them hangs a gleaming nineteenth-century harpoon gun.
—Annie Proulx, The New Yorker, 30 June 2024
Using their powerful tongues — which, at least among many Appalachian salamanders, shoot out like a harpoon — salamanders consume enormous quantities of insects.
—Benji Jones, Vox, 18 June 2024
As the nudibranch tries to grasp its prey, the prey fires its tiny harpoons at the nudibranch.
—Helen Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
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