Lance

Quick meaning: Lance is a noun meaning A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen.

Meaning

A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen.

More Meanings

1. A wooden spear, sometimes hollow, used in jousting or tilting, designed to shatter on impact with the opposing knight’s armour.
2. (fishing) A spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen.
3. (military) A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer.
4. (military) An instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordnance and forces it home.
5. (metallurgy) A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell.
6. (pyrotechnics) One of the small paper cases filled with combustible composition, which mark the outlines of a figure.
7. (medicine) A lancet.

Example Sentences

to lance a vein or an abscess

He lanced my drink and spiked it!

Seiz'd the due Victim, and with Fury lanch'd Her Back

What will you do, good greybeard? Break a lance, And run a-tilt at Death within a chair?

Word Forms

• lances
• lancing
• lanced

Synonyms for lance

Depending on context, synonyms include spear, fizgig, lancet, gig, fishgig, shaft.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include spear, shaft, lancet, gig, fizgig, fishgig.

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