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Lance   /læns/   Listen
Lance

noun
1.
A long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon.  Synonyms: shaft, spear.
2.
An implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish.  Synonyms: fishgig, fizgig, gig, spear.
3.
A surgical knife with a pointed double-edged blade; used for punctures and small incisions.  Synonym: lancet.
verb
(past & past part. lanced; pres. part. lancing)
1.
Move quickly, as if by cutting one's way.
2.
Pierce with a lance, as in a knights' fight.
3.
Open by piercing with a lancet.



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"Lance" Quotes from Famous Books



... shall be this Garment of Protection. You must wear it underneath your clothing. It has power to accumulate and exercise electrical repellent force. Perhaps you do not know what that means, so I will explain more fully. When any missile, such as a bullet, sword or lance, approaches your person, its rush through the air will arouse the repellent force of which I speak, and this force, being more powerful than the projective force, will arrest the flight of the missile and throw it back again. Therefore nothing can touch ...
— The Master Key - An Electrical Fairy Tale • L. Frank Baum

... prevent harm to his person, who had willed him not to arm, or show himself once to Scylla; but disdaining not to venture life for his brave companions, he could not contain, but armed in all points, and taking a lance in either hand, he went up to the fore-deck, and ...
— THE ADVENTURES OF ULYSSES • CHARLES LAMB

... weir or the waterfall than be alone on that island with a maniac. But the chain was stretched straight and stiff as a lance,—she could not untwist it. She was still struggling, with pink fingers bruised and rust-stained, when something heavy crashed through the saplings and a voice cried ...
— The Incomplete Amorist • E. Nesbit

... Crusader was totally indifferent whether the infidel, who now approached on his gallant barb, as if borne on the wings of an eagle, came as friend or foe; perhaps, as a vowed champion of the Cross, he might rather have preferred the latter. He disengaged his lance from his saddle, seized it with the right hand, placed it in rest with its point half-elevated, gathered up the reins in the left, waked his horse's mettle with the spur, and prepared to encounter the stranger with the calm self-confidence belonging ...
— The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book • Various

... likely to suit you, I should think," said Lucian, regarding the little free-lance with ...
— The Silent House • Fergus Hume


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