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lance
  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. (fishing) 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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  10. Examples:
    1. “Sir Anthony held the crown out on the tip of his lance.”
lancet
  1. A sharp, pointed, two-edged surgical instrument used in venesection and for opening abscesses etc.
  2. (metallurgy) An iron bar used for tapping a melting furnace.
  3. (architecture) A high narrow window, terminating in an arch acutely pointed, often double or triple, common in the first half of the 13th century.
  4. Synonyms:
lancepesade
  1. A grade within the rank of private, either assigned as assistants to corporals or performed the duties of corporals themselves.
  2. A grade within the rank of corporal; also called lance corporals.
lancers
  1. A traditional dance for eight or sixteen couples, originating from a 19th century quadrille.
  2. The music for a lancers.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Colin Baker had learned to ride horses while commanding the Hunter River lancers from 1983-86 as a member of the Army reserve.”
      “Both uhlan and czapska derive from Turkish and clearly associate the Polish lancers with origins in Turkey.”
      “Twenty-four regiments formed part of the Restoration army, but subsequent restructuring reduced this number as some were converted to lancers.”
lancetfish
  1. A voracious deep-sea fish in the genus Alepisaurus, having long, lancet-like teeth.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The porbeagle feeds mainly on fish such as herring, lancetfish and mackerel but also eats cod, redfish, haddock, squid and shellfish.”
      Lancetfish are ambush predators which spend all their time in the mesopelagic zone.”
lancer
  1. (military) A cavalry soldier armed with a lance weapon
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The lancer charged forward on his horse, brandishing his gleaming lance.”
      “If at that moment, the swordsman lunges, forcing the lance to the outside, he is safe and the lancer is at his mercy.”
      “For reasons of his own the lancer colonel does not intrude his company on the captives.”
lanch
  1. (Britain, dialect) A large bed of flints.
lancing
lancier
  1. Synonym of lancer
lancers
  1. plural of lancer
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Colin Baker had learned to ride horses while commanding the Hunter River lancers from 1983-86 as a member of the Army reserve.”
      “Both uhlan and czapska derive from Turkish and clearly associate the Polish lancers with origins in Turkey.”
      “Twenty-four regiments formed part of the Restoration army, but subsequent restructuring reduced this number as some were converted to lancers.”
lancegay
  1. (obsolete) A type of lance.
lances
lancepesades
  1. plural of lancepesade
lancetfishes
  1. plural of lancetfish
lancegays
  1. plural of lancegay
lanciers
  1. plural of lancier
lancings
lancets
lanches
  1. plural of lanch
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