lance

Meaning

Noun

1. A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen.
2. A wooden spear, sometimes hollow, used in jousting or tilting, designed to shatter on impact with the opposing knight’s armour.
3. A spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen.
4. A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer.
5. An instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordnance and forces it home.
6. A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell.
7. One of the small paper cases filled with combustible composition, which mark the outlines of a figure.
8. A lancet.

Verb

1. To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon.
2. To open with a lancet; to pierce.
3. To throw in the manner of a lance; to lanch.
4. (informal) to steal or swipe

Synonyms

spear

javelin

pike

harpoon

lancet

dart

🎯

gig

fizgig

puncture

pierce

drill

burst

lancer

bayonet

impale

bore

gun

🔫

fishgig

shaft

barge

cut

rush

incise

tap

prick

jump

lance corporal

launch

lunge

missile

nosedive

open

operate

perforate

perforator

plummet

plunge

plunk

point

popper

prickle

prong

punch

👊

regurgitate

riddle

rifle

sabre

scramble

shooter

shoot up

skewer

slash

stave

sting

stoop

storm

swoop

sword

thorn

thrust

transfix

tree

🌳

trident

🔱

tuyere

uhlan

weapon

wimble

window

🪟

zoom

let blood

make a hole

shower down

stave in

long-handled Chinese spear

leister

terebrate

end-piece of a Thai fiddle

gold-smith’s holder

wooden spear

barbed dart

apply a lancet

cannonball along

launce

thrust ahead

lant

lants

lawnce

fish-spear

with a point

arrowhead

used ceremonially

assagai

assegai

bear down

bolt

breach

break

broach

buck

charge

collet

crash

dash

💨

dissect

fish-fork

fling

fly

✈️

fly by

forge

gaff

gash

gore

halberd

hurl

hurt

Pronounced as (IPA)

/lɑːns/

Etymology

From Middle English launce, from Old French lance, from Latin lancea.