bomb lance

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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