lance
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[edit] English
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- (RP) enPR: läns, IPA: /lɑːns/, SAMPA: /lA:ns/
- (US) enPR: lăns, IPA: /læns/, SAMPA: /l{ns/
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Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɑːns
[edit] Etymology
From Old French lance, from Latin lancea.
[edit] Noun
lance (plural lances)
- A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen.
- 1590, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part III, Act II, Scene III, line 15.
- 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.
- A wooden spear, sometimes hollow, used in jousting or tilting, designed to shatter on impact with the opposing knight’s armour.
- 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.
- (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.
- (medicine) A lancet.
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weapon of war
wooden weapon used in jousting or tilting
spear or harpoon used by whalers
(military) soldier armed with a lance
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(military) instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordinance
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(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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[edit] Verb
lance (third-person singular simple present lances, present participle lancing, simple past and past participle lanced)
- To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon.
- Seized the due victim, and with fury lanced Her back. Dryden.
- To open with a lancet; to pierce; as, to lance a vein or an abscess.
- To throw in the manner of a lance; to lanch.
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[edit] Anglo-Norman
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From Latin lancea
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lance f. (oblique plural lances, nominative singular lance, nominative plural lances)
- lance (large weapon)
[edit] French
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From Latin lancea.
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- IPA: /lɑ̃s/
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lance f. (plural lances)
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lance
- first-person singular present indicative of lancer
- third-person singular present indicative of lancer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of lancer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of lancer
- second-person singular imperative of lancer
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lance f. pl.
- Plural form of lancia.
[edit] Old French
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From Latin lancea
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lance f. (oblique plural lances, nominative singular lance, nominative plural lances)
- lance (large weapon)
[edit] Romanian
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From Italian lancia (18th century).
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lance (infinitive lanzar)
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