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Word: lance
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Meaning:
Noun:
- A spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen.
- A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen.
- A wooden spear, sometimes hollow, used in jousting or tilting, designed to shatter on impact with the opposing knight?s armour.
- 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.
- medical A lancet.
- military An instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordnance and forces it home.
- military A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer.
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Proper noun:
- male|from=Germanic, pet form of Lancelot or transferred use of the surname; by folk etymology associated with a lance.
- patronymic|from=given names
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Verb:
- To open with a lancet; to pierce; as, to lance a vein or an abscess.
- To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon.
- To throw in the manner of a lance; to lanch.
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