Answer to "Long weapon" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word SPEAR , but the solution may also be LANCE which is one of the most recent solution (2025 in New York Times).

Long weapon crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
SPEAR	43 %	5
RIFLE	43 %	5
LANCE	14 %	5

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Long weapon

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• spear
• lance
• pike
• dory
• relative
• partisan
• pell
• morning star
• lat
• rapier
• sword
• dagger

Crossword Answer definitions

SPEAR noun

1. A long stick with a sharp tip used as a weapon for throwing or thrusting, or anything used to make a thrusting motion.
2. A soldier armed with such a weapon; a spearman.
3. A lance with barbed prongs, used by fishermen to retrieve fish.
4. An illegal maneuver using the end of a hockey stick to strike into another hockey player.
5. In professional wrestling, a running tackle in which the wrestler's shoulder is driven into the opponent's midsection.
6. A shoot, as of grass; a spire.
7. The feather of a horse.
8. The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod.
9. A long, thin strip from a vegetable.

SPEAR verb

1. To pierce with a spear.
2. (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.
3. To shoot into a long stem, as some plants do.

SPEAR adjective

1. Male.
2. Pertaining to male family members.

More crossword clues leading to the same solutions

Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution

More clues leading to the result SPEAR

• Asparagus measure
• Catch fish, in a way
• Javelin
• Asparagus unit
• __-carrier (opera bit player)
• Unit of asparagus
• Supernumerary's prop
• Grab with a toothpick
• Broccoli serving
• Lance

More clues leading to the result RIFLE

• Rummage through
• Long gun
• Search with intent to steal
• Sift through
• Bolt-action firearm
• Ransack and rob
• Plunder
• Ransack
• Biathlete's prop
• Drill item

More clues leading to the result LANCE

• Jousting weapon
• Knight's carry-on
• Thrusting weapon
• Tend to a boil
• Cavalry weapon
• Old weapon
• Weapon for Sir Galahad
• Grid Hall-of-famer Alworth
• Round Tabler's weapon
• Ito of crosswords