lance

[US]/lɑːns/
[UK]/læns/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. a long weapon with a pointed metal head; a warrior who fights with a lance

vt. to attack with a long weapon with a pointed metal head; to cut open with a lancet

vi. to move forward rapidly

Phrases & Collocations

jousting lance

spear and lance

broken lance

oxygen lance

free lance

spray lance

Example Sentences

pain lanced through her.

couch the lances and prepare to charge

I hurled a lance at him.

The doctor lanced the boil on his hand.

the teenager had been lanced by a wooden splinter.

Tanks lanced on into the enemy's position.

the warriors bore lances tipped with iron.

he affirms to have lanced darts at the sun.

he lanced through Harlequins' midfield to score Swansea's lone try.

The heavy lance is a "Shock" weapon.It's purpose is to unhorse a rider in single combat, such as in the "joust for peace";

A medieval sport in which two mounted knights with lances charged together and attempted to unhorse one another.

US Marine Lance Corporal Jarvis Norfleet from the Bronx, New York walks with his weapon on June 26, 2009 in Camp Leatherneck, Afghanistan.

This method of impalement by lance is also evident in both "The Prophecy" and "Bram Stoker's Dracula" where in each movie we see a scene in which hundreds are impaled in the same upright manner.

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