lance
IPA: ɫˈæns
noun
- A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen.
- A wooden spear, sometimes hollow, used in jousting or tilting, designed to shatter on impact with the opposing knight’s armour.
- (fishing) A spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen.
- (military) A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer.
- (military) An instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordnance and forces it home.
- (metallurgy) A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell.
- (pyrotechnics) One of the small paper cases filled with combustible composition, which mark the outlines of a figure.
- (medicine) A lancet.
- A surname originating as a patronymic.
- A male given name from the Germanic languages; by folk etymology associated with a lance.
- A diminutive of the male given name Lancelot
- A male given name transferred from the surname
verb
- To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon.
- To open with a lancet; to pierce.
- To throw in the manner of a lance; to lanch.
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Examples of "lance" in Sentences
- Lance Armstrong relinquishes position.
- Blaze is the uninhibited side of Lance.
- The lance was the main weapon of the hussar.
- The kopia lance was the main weapon of the hussar.
- WTF lance, is this some kind of joke that you forgot about?
- A lance of the terminal is impaled into one side of the conductor.
- They relate the stories of the children of the Heroes of the Lance.
- They are pivotal in the fighting and ending of the War of the Lance.
- Lance acknowledged this with a quizzical glance and turned to Alice.
- It was used in the east as an armour piercing alternative to the lance.
- Caramon was the strongest of the Heroes of the Lance, and a fearsome warrior.
- January 23rd, 2008 at 5: 04 pm chodin says: lance is whore … lance is whore …
- The lance was a suitable tool, but hardly one of the magical weapons of lore.
- Watanabex says: so i guess we can come back to being racist now since lance is posting pedophile friendly films
- On the eve of our departure, I found my husband in the kitchen fashioning an impromptu lance from a now headless mop.
- The Spanish original is 'rejoneo' which is a form of bullfighting where the bull is stabbed repeatedly with a wooden lance from the back of a horse.
- December 20th, 2007 at 12: 23 pm baedo says: the floodgates have opened. lance is furiously posting to avoid paying any attention to the adjacent fattys, i think.
- I would like to break a lance for a postcolonial approach when looking at Scandinavia and certainly Estonia, as long as we are clear what a postcolonial approach entails.