Lance vs. Spear: What's the Difference?

Lance and Spear Definitions
Lance
A thrusting weapon with a long wooden shaft and a sharp metal head.
Spear
A weapon consisting of a long shaft with a sharply pointed end.
Lance
A similar implement for spearing fish.
Spear
A shaft with a sharp point and barbs for spearing fish.
Lance
A cavalry lancer.
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Spear
A soldier armed with a spear.
Lance
(Medicine) See lancet.
Spear
A slender stalk, as of asparagus.
Lance
To pierce with a lance.
Spear
To pierce with a spear or other sharp object.
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Lance
(Medicine) To make a surgical incision in; cut into
Lance a boil.
Spear
To catch with a thrust of the arm
Spear a grounder.
Lance
A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen.
Spear
(Football) To block (an opponent) by ramming with the helmet, in violation of the rules.
Lance
A wooden spear, sometimes hollow, used in jousting or tilting, designed to shatter on impact with the opposing knight’s armour.
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Spear
(Sports) To jab (an opponent) with the blade of a hockey stick, in violation of the rules.
Lance
(fishing) A spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen.
Spear
To stab at something with a spear or other sharp object.
Lance
(military) A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer.
Spear
To sprout like a spear.
Lance
(military) An instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordnance and forces it home.
Spear
A long stick with a sharp tip used as a weapon for throwing or thrusting, or anything used to make a thrusting motion.
Lance
(metallurgy) A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell.
Spear
A soldier armed with such a weapon; a spearman.
Lance
(pyrotechnics) One of the small paper cases filled with combustible composition, which mark the outlines of a figure.
Spear
A lance with barbed prongs, used by fishermen to retrieve fish.
Lance
(medicine) A lancet.
Spear
(ice hockey) An illegal maneuver using the end of a hockey stick to strike into another hockey player.
Lance
To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon.
Seized the due victim, and with fury lanced Her back. Dryden.
Spear
(wrestling) In professional wrestling, a running tackle in which the wrestler's shoulder is driven into the opponent's midsection.
Lance
To open with a lancet; to pierce.
To lance a vein or an abscess
Spear
A shoot, as of grass; a spire.
Lance
To throw in the manner of a lance; to lanch.
Spear
The feather of a horse.
Lance
A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen, and often decorated with a small flag; also, a spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen.
A braver soldier never couched lance.
Spear
The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod.
Lance
A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer.
Spear
A long, thin strip from a vegetable.
Asparagus and broccoli spears
Lance
A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell.
Spear
(botany) The sprout of a plant, stalk
Lance
An instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordnance and forces it home.
Spear
(obsolete) A church spire.
Lance
One of the small paper cases filled with combustible composition, which mark the outlines of a figure.
Spear
(transitive) To pierce with a spear.
Lance
A lancet.
Spear
To penetrate or strike with, or as if with, any long narrow object; to make a thrusting motion that catches an object on the tip of a long device.
Lance
To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon.
Seized the due victim, and with fury lancedHer back.
Spear
(gridiron football) To tackle an opponent by ramming into them with one's helmet.
Lance
To open with a lancet; to pierce; as, to lance a vein or an abscess.
Spear
(intransitive) To shoot into a long stem, as some plants do.
Lance
To throw in the manner of a lance. See Lanch.
Spear
To ignore as a social snub.
Lance
A long pointed rod used as a weapon
Spear
Male.
A spear counterpart
Lance
An implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish
Spear
Pertaining to male family members.
The spear side of the family
Lance
A surgical knife with a pointed double-edged blade; used for punctures and small incisions
Spear
A long, pointed weapon, used in war and hunting, by thrusting or throwing; a weapon with a long shaft and a sharp head or blade; a lance.
They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks.
Lance
Move quickly, as if by cutting one's way;
Planes lanced towards the shore
Spear
Fig.: A spearman.
Lance
Pierce with a lance, as in a knights' fight
Spear
A sharp-pointed instrument with barbs, used for stabbing fish and other animals.
Lance
Open by piercing with a lancet;
Lance a boil
Spear
A shoot, as of grass; a spire.
Spear
The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod.
Spear
To pierce with a spear; to kill with a spear; as, to spear a fish.
Spear
To shoot into a long stem, as some plants. See Spire.
Spear
A long pointed rod used as a weapon
Spear
An implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish
Spear
Pierce with a spear;
Spear fish
Spear
Thrust up like a spear;
The branch speared up into the air