Lance

Noun

 * 1) A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen.
 * 2) * 1590, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part III, Act II, Scene III, line 15.
 * Thy brother’s blood the thirsty earth hath drunk, Broach’d with the steely point of Clifford’s lance...
 * 1) * 1909, Charles Henry Ashdown, European Arms & Armor, page 65.
 * 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.
 * 1) A wooden spear, sometimes hollow, used in jousting or tilting, designed to shatter on impact with the opposing knight’s armour.
 * 2) * 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part I, Act III, Scene II, line 49.
 * What will you do, good greybeard? Break a lance, And run a-tilt at Death within a chair?
 * 1) A spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen.
 * 2)  A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer.
 * 3)  An instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordnance and forces it home.
 * 4)  A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell.
 * 5)  One of the small paper cases filled with combustible composition, which mark the outlines of a figure.
 * 6)  A lancet.

Derived terms

 * free lance
 * lance bucket (cavalry)
 * lance corporal
 * lance fish (zoology)
 * lance knight


 * lance sergeant
 * lancer
 * lance snake (zoology)
 * stink-fire lance

Related terms

 * lancet

Verb

 * 1) To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon.
 * Seized the due victim, and with fury lanced Her back. Dryden.
 * 1) To open with a lancet; to pierce; as, to lance a vein or an abscess.
 * 2) To throw in the manner of a lance; to lanch.

Adjectives for Lance
ill-headed; gleaming; thirsty; leafy; quivei- ing; strong; shivered; rusted; splintered; unused.

Verbs for Lance
c charge with—s; harpoon with—; shatter—; slay with—; spear with—; splinter—; stab with—; thrust—; wield—; — cripples; —defends; —disfigures; —injures; —maims; —pierces; —scratches; —shivers; —splinters; —splits; —threatens; —wounds.

Thesaurus
amputate, assegai, auger, ax, bayonet, bisect, bite, bore, bowl, broach, butcher, carve, cast, catapult, chop, chuck, chunk, cleave, countersink, cut, cut away, cut in two, cut off, dagger, dart, dash, dichotomize, dirk, dissever, drill, empierce, excise, fire, fissure, fix, fling, flip, fork, gash, gore, gouge, gouge out, hack, halve, heave, hew, hole, honeycomb, hurl, hurtle, impale, incise, javelin, jerk, jigsaw, knife, lancet, launch, let fly, lob, needle, open, pare, pass, peg, pelt, penetrate, perforate, pierce, pike, pink, pitch, pitchfork, plunge in, poniard, prick, prune, punch, puncture, put, put the shot, ream, ream out, rend, riddle, rive, run through, saber, saw, scissor, serve, sever, shy, skewer, slash, slice, sling, slit, snap, snip, spear, spike, spit, split, stab, stick, stiletto, sunder, sword, tap, tear, throw, tilt, toss, transfix, transpierce, trepan, trephine, whittle

Pronunciation

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Etymology
From lance, from  lancea.

Noun

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 * : llança
 * : 長矛, 长矛 (changmao)
 * : lancia


 * : 창 (chang)
 * : lancea
 * : sleagh, ruibhne , tradh
 * : lanza

Anagrams

 * ancle, clane, clean

Noun

 * 1)  large weapon

Etymology
From lancea:

Noun

 * 1) A spear, lance.
 * 2)  A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer.
 * 3) A hose.

Derived terms

 * lance-roquette
 * lancette
 * lancement
 * lanceur, lanceuse


 * lancier
 * relance
 * relancement
 * relancer

Etymology
From lancea.

Related terms

 * lancement
 * lancer
 * lancier

Noun
lance



Noun

 * 1)  large weapon

Etymology
From lancea:

Noun

 * 1) spear,

Etymology
From lancia (18th century).

Synonyms

 * suliţă