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

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