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Definition of Lancegay
1. n. A kind of spear anciently used. Its use was prohibited by a statute of Richard II.
Definition of Lancegay
1. Noun. (obsolete) A type of lance. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lancegay
1. a kind of spear [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lancegay
Literary usage of Lancegay
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Records of the Borough of Nottingham: Being a Series of Extracts from the by Nottingham (England) (1883)
"See Skeat, sv lancegay. ... The lancegay was a kind of spear, apparently a short
missile spear, like the AS. ..."
2. Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse by Alfred William Pollard (1903)
"He purveyed him an hundred men, Well harnessed in that stead, And himself in that
same set And clothed in white and red. He bare a lancegay in his hand, ..."
3. Principles of English Etymology by Walter William Skeat (1891)
"E. lancegay. In this case, the Span, z must have been pronounced as in Portuguese
and Arabic, ie as E. z in zone. ..."
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