suffering -> sunshine -> Coup de Grace
If boars are suffering from injuries after a car crash (mainly at fog and no sunshine) it is best to kill them as quickly as possible without risking your own life. If shooting is not possible because of people standing around a Ger = boar spear is used.
The weapon was name-giver for the German. Franks had the Franziska throwing axe, the Saxons the one bladed sax, Germans the ger, ...
Modern Ger are a lot different, knife with a broad guard (to prevent an animal oving towards you), several carbon pipes which can be screwed on to turn the knife into a ger, or removing the knife and screwing a spike on the other end to have a walking stick, or you attach a saw unstead a the knife to have a long reach tree saw to cut away branches hindering the sight, or you mount a 'u'-shaped thing to lay your gun on for betteraiming, ....