A spearhead is the head of a spear. Early spearheads were made of rock or bone; more effective spearheads are fashioned of metal. Hunting spear and knife, from Mesa Verde National Park. ... Our earth is composed of three main types of rock, each having been formed in its own special way. ... Grays illustration of a human femur, a typically recognized bone. ... Hot metal work from a blacksmith In chemistry, a metal (Greek: Metallon) is an element that readily forms ions (cations) and has metallic bonds, and metals are sometimes described as a lattice of positive ions (cations) in a cloud of electrons. ...

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Spearhead can also refer to:

• Spearhead, a right wing UK magazine
• Spearhead, a musical group, see Michael Franti
• Spearhead, an expansion pack to the computer game Medal of Honor
• Spearhead, a British television series about life in the British Army
• Spearhead from Space, a Doctor Who serial
• |Spearhead, a division of Reed Elsevier which is involved in arms trade.