Lance vs Sword - What's the difference?
lance | sword |
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.
* 1909 , Charles Henry Ashdown, European Arms & Armor , page 65.
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.
(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.
To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon.
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.
(weaponry) A long-bladed weapon having a handle and sometimes a hilt and designed to stab, hew, or slice.
* 1591 , William Shakespeare, Henry VI , Part III, Act II, Scene II, line 59.
* 1786 , Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons , page 49.
Someone paid to handle a sword.
(tarot) A suit in the minor arcana in tarot.
(tarot) A card of this suit.
(weaving) One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended.
As nouns the difference between lance and sword
is that lance is a weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen while sword is a long-bladed weapon having a handle and sometimes a hilt and designed to stab, hew, or slice.As a verb lance
is to pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon.As a proper noun Lance
is {{surname|patronymic|from=given names}.lance
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Noun
(en noun)- Thy brother’s blood the thirsty earth hath drunk, Broach’d with the steely point of Clifford’s lance ...
- 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 .
- What will you do, good greybeard? Break a lance, And run a-tilt at Death within a chair?
Derived terms
* free lance * lance bucket (cavalry) * lance corporal * lance fish (zoology) * lance knight * lance sergeant * lancer * lance snake (zoology) * stink-fire lance (military)Verb
(lanc)- Seized the due victim, and with fury lanced Her back. Dryden.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "lance")See also
* javelin * pike * spearAnagrams
* ----sword
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Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- Unsheathe your sword and dub him presently.
- Some swords were also made solely to thrust, and some only to cut; others were equally adapted for both.
