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Polearm vs Lance - What's the difference?

polearm | lance |

As nouns the difference between polearm and lance

is that polearm is a close quarter combat weapon with the main fighting part of the weapon placed on the end of a long shaft, typically of wood while lance is a weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen.

As a verb lance is

to pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon.

As a proper noun Lance is

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polearm

English

(Pole weapon)

Alternative forms

* pole arm

Noun

(en noun)
  • A close quarter combat weapon with the main fighting part of the weapon placed on the end of a long shaft, typically of wood.

    • Synonyms

    * pole weapon

    Hyponyms

    * poleaxe, pole hammer

    See also

    * battle axe * * halberd

    Anagrams

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    lance

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen.
  • * 1590 , William Shakespeare, Henry VI , Part III, Act II, Scene III, line 15.
    • Thy brother’s blood the thirsty earth hath drunk, Broach’d with the steely point of Clifford’s lance ...
  • * 1909 , Charles Henry Ashdown, European Arms & Armor , page 65.
    • The head of the lance was commonly of the leaf form, and sometimes approached that of the lozenge; it was very seldom barbed, although this variety, together with the others, appears upon the .
  • A wooden spear, sometimes hollow, used in jousting or tilting, designed to shatter on impact with the opposing knight’s armour.
  • * 1591 , William Shakespeare, Henry VI , Part I, Act III, Scene II, line 49.
    • What will you do, good greybeard? Break a lance, And run a-tilt at Death within a chair?
  • (fishing) A spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen.
  • (military) A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer.
  • (military) An instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordnance and forces it home.
  • (founding) A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell.
  • (pyrotechnics) One of the small paper cases filled with combustible composition, which mark the outlines of a figure.
  • (medicine) A lancet.

    • Derived terms

    * free lance * lance bucket (cavalry) * lance corporal * lance fish (zoology) * lance knight * lance sergeant * lancer * lance snake (zoology) * stink-fire lance (military)

    Related terms

    * lancet

    Verb

    (lanc)
  • To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon.
    • Seized the due victim, and with fury lanced Her back. Dryden.
  • To open with a lancet; to pierce; as, to lance a vein or an abscess.
  • To throw in the manner of a lance; to lanch.

    • Quotations

    * (English Citations of "lance")

    See also

    * javelin * pike * spear

    Anagrams

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