lance
- Proper noun. (surname, patronymic) .
- Proper noun. (given name, male) , pet form of Lancelot or transferred use of the surname; by folk etymology associated with a lance.
- 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. (military) A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer.
- Noun. (military) An instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordnance and forces it home.
- Noun. (context, Founding) A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell.
- Noun. (context, Pyrotechnics) One of the small paper cases filled with combustible composition, which mark the outlines of a figure.
- Noun. (medicine) 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.
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