Lance

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English

File:Broken lances.jpg
Jousters with broken lances.

Noun

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

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Verb

Lance (third-person singular simple present lances, present participle lancing, simple past and past participle lanced)

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

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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

Etymology

From Old French lance, from Latin lancea.

Translations

Noun

weapon of war
wooden weapon used in jousting or tilting
spear or harpoon used by whalers
(military) soldier armed with a lance
(military) instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordinance
(founding) 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
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Anglo-Norman

Noun

Lance f. (oblique plural Lances, nominative singular Lance, nominative plural Lances)

  1. lance (large weapon)

Etymology

From Latin lancea

French

Noun

Lance f. (plural Lances)

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

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Verb

Lance

  1. first-person singular present indicative of lancer
  2. third-person singular present indicative of lancer
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of lancer
  4. first-person singular present subjunctive of lancer
  5. second-person singular imperative of lancer

Etymology

From Latin lancea.

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /lɑ̃s/

Related terms

Italian

Noun

lance f. pl.

  1. Plural form of lancia.

Old French

Noun

Lance f. (oblique plural Lances, nominative singular Lance, nominative plural Lances)

  1. lance (large weapon)

Etymology

From Latin lancea

Romanian

Noun

Lance f. (plural lănci)

  1. spear, lance

Etymology

From Italian lancia (18th century).

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Spanish

Verb

Lance (infinitive lanzar)

  1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of lanzar.
  2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of lanzar.
  3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of lanzar.
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