Definition of pierce

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Pierce (v. i.) To enter; to penetrate; to make a way into or through something, as a pointed instrument does; -- used literally and figuratively..

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Impierce :: Impierce (v. t.) To pierce; to penetrate.
Pertusate :: Pertusate (a.) Pierced at the apex.
Perforative :: Perforative (a.) Having power to perforate or pierce.
Perforated :: Perforated (a.) Pierced with a hole or holes, or with pores; having transparent dots resembling holes..
Dead-eye :: Dead-eye (n.) A round, flattish, wooden block, encircled by a rope, or an iron band, and pierced with three holes to receive the lanyard; -- used to extend the shrouds and stays, and for other purposes. Called also deadman's eye..
Perforate :: Perforate (v.) To bore through; to pierce through with a pointed instrument; to make a hole or holes through by boring or piercing; to pierce or penetrate the surface of.
Pertused :: Pertused (a.) Punched; pierced with, or having, holes..
Point :: Point (n.) That which pricks or pierces; the sharp end of anything, esp. the sharp end of a piercing instrument, as a needle or a pin..
Terebrate :: Terebrate (v. t.) To perforate; to bore; to pierce.
Bore :: Bore (v. t.) To perforate or penetrate, as a solid body, by turning an auger, gimlet, drill, or other instrument; to make a round hole in or through; to pierce; as, to bore a plank..
Sap :: Sap (v. t.) To pierce with saps.
Enpierce :: Enpierce (v. t.) To pierce.
Puncture :: Puncture (v. t.) To pierce with a small, pointed instrument, or the like; to prick; to make a puncture in; as, to puncture the skin..
Poach :: Poach (v. t.) To stab; to pierce; to spear, as fish..
Turret :: Turret (n.) The elevated central portion of the roof of a passenger car. Its sides are pierced for light and ventilation.
Pick :: Pick (v.) To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed instrument; to pierce; to prick, as with a pin..
Stake-driver :: Stake (v. t.) To pierce or wound with a stake.
Stab :: Stab (v. t.) To pierce with a pointed weapon; to wound or kill by the thrust of a pointed instrument; as, to stab a man with a dagger; also, to thrust; as, to stab a dagger into a person..
Snag :: Snag (n.) A tree, or a branch of a tree, fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable water, and rising nearly or quite to the surface, by which boats are sometimes pierced and sunk..
Enfiled :: Enfiled (p. a.) Having some object, as the head of a man or beast, impaled upon it; as, a sword which is said to be enfiled of the thing which it pierces..
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