bomb lance

noun

1. a harpoon fitted with an explosive head.

Word History and Origins

Origin of bomb lance¹

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

Because the museum was also a repository for items brought back by globe-trotting alumni, there are things like a “lucky stick” from China, a Stone Age ax, and a metal object with a label describing it as the “point of a bomb lance bent by explosion in a whale.”

From New York Times

One of the Yankee mates then fired a bomb lance into the bear's hips, and the savage beast hobbled off into the dense cover of the low scrub, where the enraged sailor-folk were unable to get at it.

From Project Gutenberg

And was that wound inflicted by a shell, shrapnel, bomb, lance, saber, bullet or any of the other noble weapons of warfare?

From Project Gutenberg

One of the Yankee mates then fired a bomb lance into the bear's hips, and the savage beast hobbled off into the dense cover of the low scrub, where the enraged sailor folk were unable to get at it.

From Project Gutenberg