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lance
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  1. lance
  2. lance bucket
  3. lance corporal
  4. lance head
  5. lance-jack
  6. lance-knight
  7. lance-linear
  8. lance-oblong
  9. lance sergeant
  10. lance snake
  11. air lance
  12. air-lance
  13. bomb lance
  14. fer-de-lance
  15. ice lance
  16. oxygen lance
  17. sand lance
  18. freelance
  19. sand launce

1lance

noun \ˈlan(t)s\

Definition of LANCE

1
: a steel-tipped spear carried by mounted knights or light cavalry
2
: any of various sharp objects suggestive of a lance: as
a : lancet
b : a spear used for killing whales or fish
3
: lancer 1b
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Examples of LANCE

  1. <the lance struck squarely on the knight's shield, knocking him from his horse>

Origin of LANCE

Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin lancea
First Known Use: 14th century

Related to LANCE

Synonyms
javelin, spear, pike, pikestaff, shaft

2lance

verb
lancedlanc·ing

Definition of LANCE

transitive verb
1
a : to pierce with or as if with a lance
b : to open with or as if with a lancet <lance a boil>
2
: to throw forward : hurl
intransitive verb
: to move forward quickly
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Examples of LANCE

  1. He had the boil on his arm lanced.
  2. <doctors used to lance infected sores, so that they could drain clean>

Origin of LANCE

Middle English launcen, from Anglo-French lancer, from Late Latin lanceare, from Latin lancea
First Known Use: 14th century

Related to LANCE

Synonyms
gore, harpoon, jab, impale, peck, pick, pierce, pink, puncture, run through, skewer, spear, spike, spit, stab, stick, transfix, transpierce

Rhymes with LANCE

chance, dance, glance, prance, trance, trans

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