bomb lance

noun

First recorded in 1900–05

Then came the dull explosion of the bomb-lance somewhere in the vitals of the whale.

Nearly all of our whale ships, however, are supplied with the fatal and destructive bomb lance.

The bomb lance may be fired with effect at a whale, at a distance of about fifty yards or more.

Mr. Gibson went over backward, exploding the gun and sending the bomb-lance into the air.

The bomb-lance and gun are all very well; but the harpoon is the real weapon on which the whaleman must depend.

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