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1.nounA weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen.
2.nounA wooden spear, sometimes hollow, used in jousting or tilting, designed to shatter on impact with the opposing knight’s armour.
3.nounA spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen.
4.nounA soldier armed with a lance; a lancer.
5.nounAn instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordnance and forces it home.
6.noun(founding) A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell.
7.nounOne of the small paper cases filled with combustible composition, which mark the outlines of a figure.
8.nounA lancet.
9.verbTo pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon."Seized the due victim, and with fury lanced Her back. Dryden."
10.verbTo open with a lancet; to pierce"to lance a vein or an abscess"
11.verbTo throw in the manner of a lance; to lanch.
12.nounSand eel, sand lance, fish of the family Ammodytidae