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Definition of Lancelike
1. Adjective. (of a leaf shape) shaped like a lance head; narrow and tapering to a pointed apex.
Definition of Lancelike
1. Adjective. Resembling a lance. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lancelike
Literary usage of Lancelike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Story of the Fishes by George Robert Charles Herbert Pembroke, James Newton Baskett, George Henry Kingsley (1899)
"... as is shown by their having then crushing teeth only and no cutting teeth
whatever. Now in all our dangerous sharks the teeth are lancelike. FIG. 39. ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1892)
"... and the tall green bamboos lancelike rear their heads above the thick hedges
of aloes and prickly pears, when for miles the country is brilliant with ..."
3. A Vagabond Journey Around the World: A Narrative of Personal Experience by Harry Alverson Franck (1911)
"The racing, bellowing cattle, urged slowly up the shute into the waiting cars by
blaspheming stockmen, waving lancelike poles above their heads, ..."
4. Evolution and Animal Life: An Elementary Discussion of Facts, Processes by David Starr Jordan, Vernon Lyman Kellogg (1907)
"... others with nodding flowers; some with dark green, woolly leaves in whorls,
or with polished light green, lancelike, scattered leaves." r• i . Fio. 67. ..."
5. Constantinople by Edwin Augustus Grosvenor (1895)
"monotony of the surface; then come the tiers of windows, row on row; and over
all the lancelike staff, tipped by the glittering spearhead, whence, ..."
6. The Romance of Dollard by Mary Hartwell Catherwood (1889)
"lancelike windows gave it light, and in the walls were loopholes which had been
stopped with stone to keep out the Canadian winter. ..."
7. How France Built Her Cathedrals: A Study in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly (1921)
"... whose Romanesque towers was ever finished with a spire, the octagonal faces
of which were relieved by curious lancelike ridges not repeated elsewhere. ..."
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