The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word SPEAR
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More clues leading to the result SPEAR
- Weapon to throw or shoot
- Fight involving energy weapon
- Stick fork into small fruit
- Small fruit and a little asparagus
- Box containing eastern throwing weapon
- Pierce second piece of fruit
- Portion of asparagus, singular accompaniment for fruit
- Stick a blade into small fruit
- Lance’s box is full of ecstasy
- Weapon brand seeing investment by Prince
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The straight part
We know that "lance" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case lance = spear.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does SPEAR mean?
SPEAR noun- A long stick with a sharp tip used as a weapon for throwing or thrusting, or anything used to make a thrusting motion.
- A soldier armed with such a weapon; a spearman.
- A lance with barbed prongs, used by fishermen to retrieve fish.
- An illegal maneuver using the end of a hockey stick to strike into another hockey player.
- In professional wrestling, a running tackle in which the wrestler's shoulder is driven into the opponent's midsection.
- A shoot, as of grass; a spire.
- The feather of a horse.
- The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod.
- A long, thin strip from a vegetable.
- To pierce with a spear.
- (by extension) 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.
- To shoot into a long stem, as some plants do.
- Male.
- Pertaining to male family members.