Synonyms, Antonyms, and other words related to lances:

1. shaft
shaft:
  • πŸ”† (obsolete) The entire body of a long weapon, such as an arrow.
  • πŸ”† The long, narrow, central body of a spear, arrow, or javelin.
  • πŸ”† (by extension) Anything cast or thrown as a spear or javelin.
  • πŸ”† Any long thin object, such as the handle of a tool, one of the poles between which an animal is harnessed to a vehicle, the driveshaft of a motorized vehicle with rear-wheel drive, an axle, etc.
  • πŸ”† A beam or ray of light
  • πŸ”† The main axis of a feather
  • πŸ”† (lacrosse) The long narrow body of a lacrosse stick.
  • πŸ”† A vertical or inclined passage sunk into the earth as part of a mine
  • πŸ”† A vertical passage housing a lift or elevator; a liftshaft.
  • πŸ”† A ventilation or heating conduit; an air duct.
  • πŸ”† (architecture) Any column or pillar, particularly the body of a column between its capital and pedestal.
  • πŸ”† The main cylindrical part of the penis
  • πŸ”† The chamber of a blast furnace
  • πŸ”† (weather) A relatively small area of precipitation that an onlook can discern from the dry surrounding area.
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2. spear
spear:
  • πŸ”† A long stick with a sharp tip used as a weapon for throwing or thrusting, or anything used to make a thrusting motion.
  • πŸ”† (now chiefly historical) A soldier armed with such a weapon; a spearman.
  • πŸ”† A lance with barbed prongs, used by fishermen to retrieve fish.
  • πŸ”† (ice hockey) An illegal maneuver using the end of a hockey stick to strike into another hockey player.
  • πŸ”† (wrestling) In professional wrestling, a running tackle in which the wrestler's shoulder is driven into the opponent's midsection.
  • πŸ”† A shoot, as of grass; a spire
  • πŸ”† The feather of a horse
  • πŸ”† The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod.
  • πŸ”† A long, thin strip from a vegetable.
  • πŸ”† (botany) The sprout of a plant, stalk
  • πŸ”† (obsolete) A church spire.
  • πŸ”† An English surname.
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3. lancet
lancet:
  • πŸ”† A sharp, pointed, two-edged surgical instrument used in venesection and for opening abscesses etc.
  • πŸ”† A small, sterile single-use needle used to draw a drop of blood for testing, as with a glucometer.
  • πŸ”† (metallurgy) An iron bar used for tapping a melting furnace.
  • πŸ”† (architecture) A high narrow window, terminating in an arch acutely pointed, often double or triple, common in the first half of the 13th century.
  • πŸ”† A surname.
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4. gig
gig:
  • πŸ”† Originally (music), a performing engagement by a musician or musical group; (by extension, film, television, theater) a job or role for a performer.
  • πŸ”† (by extension) Any job, especially one that is freelance or temporary, or done on an on-demand basis.
  • πŸ”† (US, military) A demerit received for some infraction of a military deportment or dress code.
  • πŸ”† (slang, chiefly sciences) Any unit of measurement having the SI prefix giga-.
  • πŸ”† (obsolete) A top which is made to spin by tying a piece of string around it and then throwing it so that the string unwinds rapidly; a whipping-top.
  • πŸ”† (chiefly Britain, school slang (Eton College), archaic or dialectal) A person with an odd appearance; also, a foolish person.
  • πŸ”† (slang, archaic or Britain, dialectal) Fun; frolics.
  • πŸ”† (obsolete) A fanciful impulse; a whim; also, a joke.
  • πŸ”† (nautical)
  • πŸ”† (road transport, historical) A two-wheeled carriage drawn by a single horse.
  • πŸ”† (obsolete) A frivolous, playful, or wanton young woman; a giglet or giglot.
  • πŸ”† (fishing) Synonym of fishgig or fizgig (β€œa spear with a barb on the end of it, used for catching fish, frogs, or other small animals”).
  • πŸ”† (informal, computing) Clipping of gigabyte (β€œone billion (1,000,000,000) bytes”). [(SI) 10⁹, one billion (1,000,000,000) bytes. SI symbol: GB]
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5. fishgig
fishgig:
  • πŸ”† (fishing) Alternative spelling of fizgig [(archaic) A flirtatious, coquettish girl, inclined to gad or gallivant about; a gig, a giglot, a jillflirt.]
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6. fizgig
fizgig:
  • πŸ”† (archaic) A flirtatious, coquettish girl, inclined to gad or gallivant about; a gig, a giglot, a jillflirt.
  • πŸ”† (archaic) Something frivolous or trivial; a gewgaw, a trinket.
  • πŸ”† (archaic) A small squib-like firework that explodes with a fizzing or hissing noise.
  • πŸ”† (fishing) A spear with a barb on the end of it, used for catching fish, frogs, or other small animals; a type of harpoon.
  • πŸ”† (Australia, slang, dated) A police informer, a stool pigeon, someone employed by police to entrap someone else or provoke them to commit a crime.
  • πŸ”† (Scotland, rare) common ragwort (Jacobaea vulgaris, syn. Senecio jacobaea).
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7. Swords
Swords:
  • πŸ”† A town in County Fingal, Ireland.
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8. rapiers
rapier:
  • πŸ”† A slender, straight, sharply pointed sword (double-edged, single-edged or edgeless).
  • πŸ”† A surname.
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9. harpoons
harpoon:
  • πŸ”† A spearlike weapon with a barbed head used in hunting whales and large fish.
  • πŸ”† (slang) A harmonica.
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10. scabbards
scabbard:
  • πŸ”† The sheath of a sword
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11. daggers
dagger:
  • πŸ”† (weaponry) A stabbing weapon, similar to a sword but with a short, double-edged blade.
  • πŸ”† (typography) The text character †; the obelus.
  • πŸ”† (basketball, American football) A point scored near the end of the game (clutch time) to take or increase the scorer's team lead, so that they are likely to win.
  • πŸ”† A timber placed diagonally in a ship's frame
  • πŸ”† (soccer) A player, supporter or other person connected with Dagenham & Redbridge Football Club.
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12. spearmen
spearman:
  • πŸ”† A soldier who fights with a spear.
  • πŸ”† A surname originating as an occupation.
  • πŸ”† A city, the county seat of Hansford County, Texas, United States.
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13. hilts
hilt:
  • πŸ”† The handle of a sword, consisting of grip, guard, and pommel, designed to facilitate use of the blade and afford protection to the hand.
  • πŸ”† The base of the penis
  • πŸ”† A surname.
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14. sabers
saber:
  • πŸ”† A surname.
  • πŸ”† (American spelling) Alternative form of sabre [(UK, Canada) A light sword, sharp along the front edge, part of the back edge, and at the point.]
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15. axes
axe:
  • πŸ”† A tool for felling trees or chopping wood etc. consisting of a heavy head flattened to a blade on one side, and a handle attached to it.
  • πŸ”† An ancient weapon consisting of a head that has one or two blades and a long handle.
  • πŸ”† (informal) A dismissal or rejection.
  • πŸ”† (figuratively) A drastic reduction or cutback.
  • πŸ”† (slang, music) A gigging musician's particular instrument, especially a guitar in rock music or a saxophone in jazz.
  • πŸ”† (finance) A position, interest, or reason in buying and selling stock, often with ulterior motives.
  • πŸ”† (archaic) The axle of a wheel
  • πŸ”† A river in Dorset, Somerset, and east Devon, England, which flows into Lyme Bay at Seaton.
  • πŸ”† A river in Somerset, England, which flows into the Bristol Channel at Weston-super-Mare.
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16. ballista
ballista:
  • πŸ”† (weaponry, historical) An ancient military engine, in the form of a crossbow, used for hurling large missiles.
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17. fishhooks
fishhooks:
  • πŸ”† (slang) A pair of jacks (the playing card)
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18. picadors
picador:
  • πŸ”† (bullfighting) A lancer mounted on horseback who assists a matador.
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19. javelins
javelin:
  • πŸ”† A light spear thrown with the hand and used as a weapon.
  • πŸ”† A metal-tipped spear thrown for distance in an athletic field event.
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20. fletching
fletching:
  • πŸ”† The process of attaching fins, such as halved feathers, to a projectile in order to stabilize its flight.
  • πŸ”† The fins or feathers so attached.
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21. maces
mace:
  • πŸ”† A heavy fighting club.
  • πŸ”† A ceremonial form of this weapon
  • πŸ”† A long baton used by some drum majors to keep time and lead a marching band. If this baton is referred to as a mace, by convention it has a ceremonial often decorative head, which, if of metal, usually is hollow and sometimes intricately worked.
  • πŸ”† An officer who carries a mace as a token of authority.
  • πŸ”† A knobbed mallet used by curriers make leather supple when dressing it.
  • πŸ”† (archaic) A billiard cue.
  • πŸ”† An old money of account in China equal to one tenth of a tael.
  • πŸ”† An old weight of 57.98 grains.
  • πŸ”† A spice obtained from the outer layer of the kernel of the fruit of the nutmeg.
  • πŸ”† Tear gas or pepper spray, especially for personal use.
  • πŸ”† (countable) A male given name, a name derived from the war instrument, a mace
  • πŸ”† An English surname transferred from the given name.
  • πŸ”† A surname from Norman.
  • πŸ”† An unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Indiana, United States.
  • πŸ”† Alternative letter-case form of mace (tear gas or pepper spray) [A heavy fighting club.]
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22. broadswords
broadsword:
  • πŸ”† (historical) A type of early modern sword that has a broad double-edged blade for cutting (as opposed to the more slender thrust-oriented rapier) and typically a basket hilt.
  • πŸ”† A person armed with such a sword.
  • πŸ”† (colloquial, often fantasy) Synonym of longsword
  • πŸ”† A flat, rectangular bread made from corn (maize) and beans by the Cherokee, traditionally by boiling rather than baking it.
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23. arrows
arrows:
  • πŸ”† (heraldry) Short darts feathered at the ends.
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24. scimitars
scimitar:
  • πŸ”† A sword of Persian origin that features a curved blade.
  • πŸ”† A long-handled billhook.
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25. awls
awl:
  • πŸ”† A pointed instrument for piercing small holes, as in leather or wood; used by shoemakers, saddlers, cabinetmakers, etc. The blade is differently shaped and pointed for different uses, as in the brad awl, saddler's awl, shoemaker's awl, etc.
  • πŸ”† (entomology) Any of various hesperiid butterflies
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26. gauntlets
gauntlet:
  • πŸ”† Protective armor for the hands, formerly thrown down as a challenge to combat.
  • πŸ”† A long glove covering the wrist.
  • πŸ”† (nautical) A rope on which hammocks or clothes are hung for drying.
  • πŸ”† (archaic) Two parallel rows of attackers who strike at a criminal as punishment.
  • πŸ”† A simultaneous attack from two or more sides.
  • πŸ”† (figuratively) Any challenging, difficult, or painful ordeal, often one performed for atonement or punishment.
  • πŸ”† (rail transport) A temporary convergence of two parallel railroad tracks allowing passage through a narrow opening in each direction without switching.
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27. gladius
gladius:
  • πŸ”† (historical) A Roman sword roughly two feet long.
  • πŸ”† (zoology) A pen, a hard internal bodypart of certain cephalopods, made of chitin-like material.
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28. torches
torch:
  • πŸ”† A stick with a flame on one end, used chiefly as a light source; a similarly shaped implement with a replaceable supply of flammable material.
  • πŸ”† (Commonwealth) A portable light source powered by electricity; a flashlight.
  • πŸ”† (US) An arsonist.
  • πŸ”† A blowtorch or oxy-gas torch.
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29. shuriken
shuriken:
  • πŸ”† A dart or throwing blade, sometimes with multiple points, used as a weapon by ninja (or samurai).
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30. Quills
Quills:
  • πŸ”† a 2000 period film directed by Philip Kaufman and adapted from the Obie award-winning 1995 play by Doug Wright, who also wrote the original screenplay.
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31. breastplates
breastplate:
  • πŸ”† A piece of armor that covers the chest
  • πŸ”† A piece of horse tack designed to prevent the saddle slipping backwards.
  • πŸ”† A piece of silicone in the shape of women's breasts worn by drag queens and other female impersonators to simulate a female body shape.
  • πŸ”† (Judaism) An embroidered square of linen worn on the breast of the Jewish high priest, bearing twelve precious stones, each inscribed with the name of one of the tribes of Israel.
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32. steeds
steed:
  • πŸ”† (archaic, poetic) A stallion, especially in the sense of mount.
  • πŸ”† (cycling, slang, humorous) A bicycle.
  • πŸ”† A surname.
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33. blowpipe
blowpipe:
  • πŸ”† (chemistry) a narrow tube through which a jet of air is directed onto a flame; used in the analysis of minerals etc and in jewelry manufacture
  • πŸ”† a weapon through which darts may be shot by blowing; a blowgun
  • πŸ”† (glassblowing) a long narrow pipe, rotated in the hands, upon which glassware is blown
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34. pitchforks
pitchfork:
  • πŸ”† An agricultural tool comprising a fork with sparse, light tines, attached to a long handle, used for pitching hay (especially loose hay) high up onto a stack (as on a wagon or haystack, or into a haymow).
  • πŸ”† A similar fork with slightly more and heavier tines, used for mucking stalls and pitching soiled bedding into a wagon or manure spreader.
  • πŸ”† (casual, loosely) Any fork used for farm labor, even a digging fork (but such usage is often considered ignorant by experienced farmers).
  • πŸ”† (rare) A tuning fork.
  • πŸ”† A surname.
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35. Knives
Knives:
  • πŸ”† the fourth studio album by American punk rock band Aiden.
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36. mallet
mallet:
  • πŸ”† A type of hammer with a larger-than-usual head made of wood, rubber or similar non-iron material, used by woodworkers for driving a tool, such as a chisel. A kind of maul.
  • πŸ”† A weapon resembling the tool, but typically much larger.
  • πŸ”† A small hammer-like tool used for playing certain musical instruments.
  • πŸ”† A light beetle with a long handle used in playing croquet.
  • πŸ”† The stick used to strike the ball in the sport of polo.
  • πŸ”† A type of articulated locomotive, in which there are two powered trucks, with the rear truck being rigidly attached to the main body and boiler of the locomotive, while the front powered truck is attached to the rear by a hinge, so that it may swing from side to side, and with the front end of the boiler resting upon a sliding bearing on the swinging front truck.
  • πŸ”† (cryptography) Often the malicious party in examples of threat scenarios. See Alice and Bob.
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37. lariats
lariat:
  • πŸ”† A lasso.
  • πŸ”† A tether.
  • πŸ”† (wrestling) An attack where the wrestler runs towards an opponent, wraps his arm around their upper chest and neck and then forces them to the ground.
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38. anvils
anvil:
  • πŸ”† A heavy iron block used in the blacksmithing trade as a surface upon which metal can be struck and shaped.
  • πŸ”† (anatomy) The incus bone in the middle ear
  • πŸ”† A stone or other hard surface used by a bird for breaking the shells of snails.
  • πŸ”† The non-moving surface of a micrometer against which the item to be measured is placed.
  • πŸ”† (meteorology) A horizontal-topped mass of cloud, shaped like a blacksmith's anvil, that forms before a thunderstorm.
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39. bucklers
buckler:
  • πŸ”† One who buckles something.
  • πŸ”† A kind of shield, of various shapes and sizes, held in the hand or worn on the arm (usually the left), for protecting the front of the body. In the sword and buckler play of the Middle Ages in England, the buckler was a small shield, used not to cover the body but to stop or parry blows.
  • πŸ”† (obsolete) A shield resembling the Roman scutum. In modern usage, a smaller variety of shield is usually implied by this term.
  • πŸ”† (zoology) One of the large, bony, external plates found on many ganoid fishes.
  • πŸ”† (zoology) The anterior segment of the shell of a trilobite
  • πŸ”† (nautical) A block of wood or plate of iron made to fit a hawse hole, or the circular opening in a half-port, to prevent water from entering when the vessel pitches.
  • πŸ”† A surname.
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40. fasces
fasces:
  • πŸ”† A Roman symbol of judicial authority consisting of a bundle of wooden sticks, with an axe blade embedded in the centre; used also as a symbol of fascism.
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41. handsaws
handsaw:
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42. Shields
Shields:
  • πŸ”† A surname.
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