lance

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Derived terms 1.3.2 Related terms 1.3.3 Translations 1.4 Verb 1.5 See also 1.6 Anagrams 2 French 2.1 Etymology 2.2 Pronunciation 2.3 Noun 2.3.1 Derived terms 2.4 Verb form 2.5 Related terms 3 Italian 3.1 Noun 4 Spanish 4.1 Verb

[edit] English

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[edit] Pronunciation

• (RP) enPR: läns, IPA: /lɑːns/, SAMPA: /lA:ns/
• (US) enPR: lăns, IPA: /læns/, SAMPA: /l{ns/
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  Rhymes: -ɑːns

[edit] Etymology

From Old French lance, from Latin lancea.

[edit] 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.
   • 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...

   • 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.

2. A wooden spear, sometimes hollow, used in jousting or tilting, designed to shatter on impact with the opposing knight’s armour.
   • 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?

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.

[edit] Derived terms

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

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

[edit] Related terms

• lancet

[edit] Translations

[edit] Verb

to 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.

[edit] See also

• javelin
• pike
• spear

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: aceln
• clean

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[edit] French

[edit] Etymology

From Latin lancea.

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /lɑ̃s/

[edit] Noun

lance f. (plural lances)

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

[edit] Derived terms

lance-roquette lancette lancement lanceur, lanceuse

lancier relance relancement relancer

[edit] Verb form

lance

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

[edit] Related terms

• lancement
• lancer
• lancier

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[edit] Italian

[edit] Noun

lance f plural

1. Plural form of lancia.

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[edit] Spanish

[edit] 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.