lance English
Noun
( en noun)
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 .
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?
(fishing) 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.
Derived terms
* free lance
* lance bucket (cavalry)
* lance corporal
* lance fish (zoology)
* lance knight
* lance sergeant
* lancer
* lance snake (zoology)
* stink-fire lance (military)
Related terms
* lancet
Verb
( lanc)
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.
See also
* javelin
* pike
* spear
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spear Noun
( en noun)
A long stick with a sharp tip used as a weapon for throwing or thrusting, or anything used to make a thrusting motion.
A soldier armed with such a weapon; a spearman.
* 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 187:
- Two of the four spears came directly from Lady Margaret's staff. One was her great-nephew Maurice St John […].
A sharp tool used by fishermen to retrieve fish.
(ice hockey) an illegal maneuver using the end of a hockey stick to strike into another hockey player.
(wrestling) a running tackle on an opponent performed in professional wrestling.
A spearman.
- (Sir Walter Scott)
A shoot, as of grass; a spire.
The feather of a horse.
The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod.
A long, thin strip from a vegetable.
- asparagus and broccoli spears
Derived terms
* spearbush
* spear gun
* spearhead
* spearmint
* spear thrower
* spear tackle
* spearwood
See also
* assegai, assagai, assagaie, assagay, assegay, azagaia, hassagay, hassaguay, zagaie, zagaye
* atlatl
* bayonet
* harpoon
* javelin
* joust
* lance
* pike
* spit, used to grill food on fire
* woomera
Verb
( en verb)
To penetrate or strike with, or as if with, any long narrow object. To make a thrusting motion that catches an object on the tip of a long device.
To shoot into a long stem, as some plants do.
- (Mortimer)
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