stab

(noun): An act of stabbing or thrusting with an object.
(noun): A wound made by stabbing.
(noun): Pain inflicted on a person's feelings.
(noun): An attempt.
(noun): Criticism.
(noun): A single staccato chord that adds dramatic impact to a composition.
(noun): A bacterial culture made by inoculating a solid medium, such as gelatin, with the puncture of a needle or wire.
(verb): To pierce or to wound (somebody) with a pointed tool or weapon, especially a knife or dagger.
(verb): To thrust in a stabbing motion.
(verb): To recklessly hit with the tip of a pointed object, such as a weapon or finger (often used with at).
(verb): To cause a sharp, painful sensation (often used with at).
(verb): To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander.
(verb): To roughen a brick wall with a pick so as to hold plaster.
(verb): To pierce folded sheets, near their back edges, for the passage of thread or wire.

a horn stab
If you stab him in the heart he won't live long enough to retaliate.
to stab a dagger into a person
He stabbed at my face with the twig but luckily kept missing my eyes.
The snow from the blizzard was stabbing at my face as I skied down the mountain.