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/lɑːns/ · noun
A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen..
Thy brother’s blood the thirsty earth hath drunk, Broach’d with the steely point of Clifford’s lance[…]
The head of the lance was commonly of the leaf form, and sometimes approached that of the lozenge; it was very seldom barbed, although this variety, together with the others, appears upon the Bayeux Tapestry.
What will you do, good greybeard? Break a lance, And run a-tilt at Death within a chair?
Seiz'd the due Victim, and with Fury lanch'd Her Back
to lance a vein or an abscess
He lanced my drink and spiked it!
Use lance when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Lance means A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen..
Common synonyms include spear, fizgig, lancet, gig.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Thy brother’s blood the thirsty earth hath drunk, Broach’d with the steely point of Clifford’s lance[…]
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