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- noun Any of many South American
venomous pitvipers of the genus Bothrops
Etymologies
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Examples
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There the lancehead-shaped fissure opened on the ravine, whence it was flushed with cool air.
Tropic Days 2003
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Right after he touched the stripe with the lancehead on the standard.
Water Sleeps Cook, Glen 1999
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Optics set limits to what could be reconstructed at a distance of some eighty million kilometers, but he made out a blurry lancehead shape amidst a comma of bluish light, which trailed aft like a tail, the visible part of photons from excited atoms and plasma around the screen fields and aft of them.
Inconstant Star Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1991
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For a moment he stared at the lancehead, enough sharp steel to go completely through him, and abruptly he shouted, "No!"
The Eye of the World Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1990
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Medjhah dropped his lancehead toward the one prisoner who had a little spirit, who might have been the leader of the group.
The Tower of Fear Cook, Glen 1989
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Medjhah drew the razor-sharp edge of his lancehead along the man's cheek.
The Tower of Fear Cook, Glen 1989
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The warrior's lancehead seemed to have been wrought of living fire.
The Swordbearer Cook, Glen 1982
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They made a blue-shadowy dimness beneath the wall whereon he stood: a face, a lancehead, a burnoose, a helmet, picked out of the dusk which still welled between surrounding houses and archways.
The Day Of Their Return Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1973
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They made a blue-shadowy dimness beneath the wall whereon he stood: a face, a lancehead, a burnoose, a helmet, picked out of the dusk which still welled between surrounding houses and archways.
The Day of Their Return Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1973
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Ken caught the flash of sun on a lancehead bearing straight down upon him.
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