lance🔊

A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen.

A wooden spear, sometimes hollow, used in jousting or tilting, designed to shatter on impact with the opposing knight’s armour.

(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.

(metallurgy) 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.

To throw in the manner of a lance; to lanch.