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Lance

noun

A long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon. Synonyms: shaft, spear.

An implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish. Synonyms: fishgig, fizgig, gig, spear.

A surgical knife with a pointed double-edged blade; used for punctures and small incisions. Synonym: lancet.

verb

(past & past part. lanced; pres. part. lancing)

Move quickly, as if by cutting one's way.

Pierce with a lance, as in a knights' fight.

Open by piercing with a lancet.

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... shouldering his arms, on guard before the black and white sentry-box—to the right, ready to march with knapsack and cooking utensils strapped on his back, bread-bag and field-flask at his side, gun at his feet—in the centre, in full dress uniform as a lance-corporal, with his hand to his ...

— The Son of His Mother • Clara Viebig

... and leather, and from his lance fluttered the bannerol bearing the Borgia arms, which had announced his ...

— The Shame of Motley • Raphael Sabatini

... with their taunts and revilings, the party killed their prisoner and cut off his head. They set his head upon the point of a lance, and in this way presented it to Queen Margaret. The queen ordered the head to be decorated with a paper crown, and then to be carried to York, and set up at the gates of that city upon ...

— Richard III - Makers of History • Jacob Abbott

... good and her steward's department excelled that of the regular passenger boats. By cutting the regular passenger rates from twenty-five to forty per cent. and advertising the vessel to sail at a certain hour on a certain date from a certain pier, free-lance ticket brokers found no difficulty in getting her a fair complement of passengers each trip. There was a moderate profit in this passenger traffic, and Mr. Skinner was ...

— Cappy Ricks • Peter B. Kyne

... horse and weapon. The shouts of the fellows as they galloped up and down in the animating exercise—their loud bursts of laughter when any of their number caught a fall—and still louder acclamations when any of the party made a capital stroke with his lance—gave so much animation to the whole scene, that I caught the enthusiasm of the sport, and ventured forward a considerable space on the sands. The feats of one horseman, in particular, called forth so repeatedly the clamorous applause of his ...

— Redgauntlet • Sir Walter Scott

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