Lance

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A thrusting weapon with a long wooden shaft and a sharp metal head.
  • n. A similar implement for spearing fish.
  • n. A cavalry lancer.
  • n. Medicine See lancet.
  • v. To pierce with a lance.
  • v. Medicine To make a surgical incision in; cut into: lance a boil.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen.
  • n. A wooden spear, sometimes hollow, used in jousting or tilting, designed to shatter on impact with the opposing knight’s armour.
  • n. A spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen.
  • n. A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer.
  • n. An instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordnance and forces it home.
  • n. A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell.
  • n. One of the small paper cases filled with combustible composition, which mark the outlines of a figure.
  • n. A lancet.
  • v. To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon.
  • v. To open with a lancet; to pierce; as, to lance a vein or an abscess.
  • v. To throw in the manner of a lance; to lanch.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. 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.
  • n. A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer.
  • n. A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell.
  • n. An instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordnance and forces it home.
  • n. One of the small paper cases filled with combustible composition, which mark the outlines of a figure.
  • n. A lancet.
  • v. To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon.
  • v. To open with a lancet; to pierce.
  • v. To throw in the manner of a lance. See Lanch.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. 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.
  • n. Any long and slender spear: applied loosely to weapons of savage tribes, etc.
  • n. The instrument with which a whale is killed after being harpooned and tired out.
  • n. 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.
  • n. A pyrotechnic squib used for various purposes.
  • n. 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.
  • n. One skilled in the use of the lance; a soldier armed with a lance; a lancer.
  • n. In ichthyology, same as sand-lance.
  • 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.
  • n. A balance.
  • n. A pointed stick of light timber used for the erection of a temporary telegraph-or telephone-line: used especially in military operations.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a surgical knife with a pointed double-edged blade; used for punctures and small incisions
  • n. a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon
  • v. pierce with a lance, as in a knights' fight
  • v. move quickly, as if by cutting one's way
  • v. open by piercing with a lancet
  • n. an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish
  • Verb Form
    lanced    lances    lancing   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    surgical knife    thrust    pierce    locomote    travel    move    go    open    open up   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    lanch   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    lancer    lancet    pierce   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Chance    France    Nance    Romance    Vance    advance    anse    askance    chance    crance   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    spear    dagger    sword    arrow    bayonet    axe    dart    shield    armor    bolt