Lance

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A thrusting weapon with a long wooden shaft and a sharp metal head.
  • noun. A similar implement for spearing fish.
  • noun. A cavalry lancer.
  • noun. undefined
  • transitive verb. To pierce with a lance.
  • transitive verb. To make a surgical incision in; cut into.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To pierce with a lance, or with any sharp-pointed instrument.
  • To open with or as if with a lancet: as, to lance an abscess.
  • To throw in the manner of a javelin; launch.
  • To shoot forth as a lance.
  • To shoot or spring up.
  • To pierce.
  • noun. A balance.
  • noun. A pointed stick of light timber used for the erection of a temporary telegraph-or telephone-line: used especially in military operations.
  • noun. A long spear used rather by couching and in the charge than for throwing; especially, the long spear of the middle ages, and of certain modern cavalry regiments in which the use of this arm is retained.
  • noun. Any long and slender spear: applied loosely to weapons of savage tribes, etc.
  • noun. The instrument with which a whale is killed after being harpooned and tired out.
  • noun. In carpentry, a pointed blade, as that affixed to one side of a chipping-bit or router to sever the grain around the path of the tool. It is also used in certain crozes, gages, and planes.
  • noun. A pyrotechnic squib used for various purposes.
  • noun. An iron rod which is fixed across the earthen mold of a shell, and keeps it suspended in the air when the shell is cast.
  • noun. One skilled in the use of the lance; a soldier armed with a lance; a lancer.
  • noun. In ichthyology, same as sand-lance.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon.
  • transitive verb. To open with a lancet; to pierce.
  • transitive verb. To throw in the manner of a lance. See Lanch.
  • noun. A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen, and often decorated with a small flag; also, a spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen.
  • noun. A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer.
  • noun. A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell.
  • noun. An instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordnance and forces it home.
  • noun. One of the small paper cases filled with combustible composition, which mark the outlines of a figure.
  • noun. A lancet.
  • noun. in the Middle Ages, and subsequently, a knight or roving soldier, who was free to engage for any state or commander that purchased his services; hence, a person who assails institutions or opinions on his own responsibility without regard to party lines or deference to authority. See also freelance, n. and a., and freelancer.
  • noun. a socket attached to a saddle or stirrup strap, in which to rest the but of a lance.
  • noun. same as Lancepesade.
  • noun. a lansquenet.
  • noun. the fer-de-lance.
  • noun. a kind of fuse filled with a composition which burns with a suffocating odor; -- used in the counter operations of miners.
  • noun. to engage in a tilt or contest.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen.
  • noun. A wooden spear, sometimes hollow, used in jousting or tilting, designed to shatter on impact with the opposing knight’s armour.
  • noun. A spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen.
  • noun. A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer.
  • noun. An instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordnance and forces it home.
  • noun. A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell.
  • noun. One of the small paper cases filled with combustible composition, which mark the outlines of a figure.
  • noun. A lancet.
  • verb. To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon.
  • verb. To open with a lancet; to pierce; as, to lance a vein or an abscess.
  • verb. To throw in the manner of a lance; to lanch.
  • Word Usage
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    Form
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    go  locomote  move  open  open up  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Chance  France  Nance  Romance  Vance  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    armor  arrow  axe  bayonet  bolt  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    amputate  assegai  auger  ax  bayonet  
    variant
    lanch  
    verb-form
    lanced  lances  lancing