NOUN
  • Definition - A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen.
  • Definition - A wooden spear, sometimes hollow, used in jousting or tilting, designed to shatter on impact with the opposing knight’s armour.
  • Definition - A spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen.
  • Definition - A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer.
  • Definition - An instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordnance and forces it home.
  • Definition - (founding) A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell.
  • Definition - One of the small paper cases filled with combustible composition, which mark the outlines of a figure.
  • Definition - A lancet.
VERB
  • Definition - To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon.
  • Example - Seized the due victim, and with fury lanced Her back. Dryden.
  • Definition - To open with a lancet; to pierce
  • Example - to lance a vein or an abscess
  • Definition - To throw in the manner of a lance; to lanch.
  • Example - to lance a vein or an abscess
Words in your word
5 Letter Words
clean 7 lance 7
4 Letter Words
acne 6 alec 6 cane 6 clan 6 lace 6 elan 4 lane 4 lean 4
3 Letter Words
ace 5 cal 5 can 5 cel 5 lac 5 ale 3 ane 3 lea 3 nae 3
2 Letter Words
ae 2 al 2 an 2 el 2 en 2 la 2 na 2 ne 2