lance¹ /läns/ or (Spenser) launce (also /löns/)

1. A cavalry weapon with a long shaft, a spearhead, and a small flag
2. A similar weapon for other purposes, such as hunting
3. A surgeon's lancet
4. A blade in a cutting tool to sever the grain in advance of the main blade (carpentry)
5. A lancer

1. To pierce, as with a lance
2. To open or incise with a lancet in order to allow drainage (medicine)
3. To shoot out or fling (obsolete)

To rush, dart or fling oneself (obsolete)

lanceˈlet noun

Any of the narrow, translucent, backboned marine animals of the genera Branchiostoma and Asymmetron

lancˈer noun

A light cavalry soldier armed with a lance, or a soldier of a regiment formerly so armed

lancˈers singular noun

A set of quadrilles, first popular in England about 1820, or its music

lancˈiform adjective

Shaped like a lance

lance corporal noun

1. (formed on lance prisado) acting corporal
2. The military rank between private and corporal, the lowest rank of non-commissioned officer in the British Army (army sl lanceˈjack)

lance sergeant noun

A corporal acting as a sergeant

lanceˈwood noun

Any of various West Indian, Australian and New Zealand trees with strong, elastic, durable wood

launce¹ /löns or läns/ or lance /läns/

A sand eel (genus Ammodytes), an eel-like fish that buries itself in wet sand at ebb-tide (also lant)

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