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Lanced vs Laced - What's the difference?

lanced | laced |

As verbs the difference between lanced and laced

is that lanced is past tense of lance while laced is past tense of lace.

As an adjective laced is

tainted with something, especially a drug.

lanced

English

Verb

(head)
  • (lance)

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    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.

    • Quotations

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    See also

    * javelin * pike * spear

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    laced

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Tainted with something, especially a drug.
    • I don't know what it was laced with, but he passed out a minute after drinking that first beer.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (lace)
  • Especially of shoelaces, intertwined and neatly knotted.
    • Are your shoes laced up yet?
    The handkercheif was laced up into a neat little pillow.

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