lancing

English

Verb

lancing

1. present participle of lance

Noun

lancing (plural lancings)

1. The act by which something is lanced.
   • 2011, Paul Oppenheimer, Machiavelli: A Life Beyond Ideology (page 46)

     Bernardo's physicians treated their lawyer-patient in the ordinary ignorant ways, with debilitating bleedings, plus helpful lancings of the abscessed boils.

Anagrams

• Clingan, Lincang