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lance
1[ lans, lahns ]
noun
- a long wooden shaft with a pointed metal head, used as a weapon by knights and cavalry soldiers in charging.
- a cavalry soldier armed with such a weapon; lancer.
- an implement resembling the weapon, as a spear for killing a harpooned whale.
- Lance, Military. a U.S. Army surface-to-surface rocket with a range of 47 miles (75 km) and capable of carrying a tactical nuclear warhead.
- a lancet.
- Machinery.
- a tube having a nozzle for cleaning furnace walls and other inaccessible surfaces with air, water, or steam.
- a pipe for directing oxygen onto a heated metal object in order to burn a hole in it, the lance also being consumed so as to add to the heat.
verb (used with object)
- to open with or as if with a lancet.
- to pierce with a lance.
- to cut through (concrete or the like) with an oxygen lance.
lance
2[ lans, lahns ]
noun
Lance
3[ lans ]
noun
- a male given name.
lance
/ lɑːns /
noun
- a long weapon with a pointed head used by horsemen to unhorse or injure an opponent
- a similar weapon used for hunting, whaling, etc
- surgery another name for lancet
- the sand lance See sand eel
verb
- to pierce (an abscess or boil) with a lancet to drain off pus
- to pierce with or as if with a lance
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- lancelike adjective
- un·lanced adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
Crossover performer and Pervout.com owner Lance Hart avoids some of the increased risk his fellow colleagues face.
After Mia overdoses on heroin, Vincent brings her to the home of Lance and Jody.
"Ah, that trip with Lance," he said, then glanced down, with those melancholy eyes.
If you didn't think Lance Bass was having an awesome time being Lance Bass, then think again.
And all I really knew about you was what I heard through Lance, Inc.
Right over the stone marker, a long-shafted war-lance was carved—the blade pointing down.
Where sabre, lance, and bayonet, right soon would turn and flee!
Stop and try a ride, Billy, urged Lance Darby, holding the cord of the tugging kite.
She made so much noise that Lance grabbed at her and tried to put her out of the room, Topsy still barking furiously.
That was a great scheme you suggested about the kite the other day, Laura, declared Lance Darby.
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