launce
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Definitions
noun
- 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.
- A spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen.
- A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer.
verb
- To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon.“Seized the due victim, and with fury lanced Her back. Dryden.”
- To open with a lancet; to pierce“to lance a vein or an abscess”
- To throw in the manner of a lance; to lanch.
noun
- Sand eel, sand lance, fish of the family Ammodytidae
noun
- A balance.
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Synonyms
sand lancesand eelsand launcesandlancesandlinghornerlanceletlancefishsand flounderlanttallegalanesandeellancet fishsandfishlancetfishsea loach