fer-de-lance

noun

Etymology

Borrowed from French fer de lance (“spearhead”).

  1. derived from fer de lance — “spearhead

Definitions

  1. Bothrops lanceolatus or other lancehead snakes of genus Bothrops.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fer-de-lance. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA