Meaning of lance | Babel Free

Definitions

1. rod, pole (a long thin stick)
2. A surname originating as a patronymic.
3. A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen.
4. rod (a thin cane or branch)
5. A male given name from the Germanic languages; by folk etymology associated with a lance.
6. A diminutive of the male given name Lancelot.
7. A wooden spear, sometimes hollow, used in jousting or tilting, designed to shatter on impact with the opposing knight’s armour.
8. rod (a staff of office)
9. A male given name transferred from the surname.
10. A spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen.
11. A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer.
12. vara, a Spanish rod or yard (a traditional unit of length equivalent to about 83.7 cm)
13. An instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordnance and forces it home.
14. A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell.
15. One of the small paper cases filled with combustible composition, which mark the outlines of a figure.
16. A lancet.
17. A piece in the game of shogi that can move directly forward any number of squares.

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Examples

“Thy brother’s blood the thirsty earth hath drunk, Broach’d with the steely point of Clifford’s lance[…]”

“The head of the lance was commonly of the leaf form, and sometimes approached that of the lozenge; it was very seldom barbed, although this variety, together with the others, appears upon the Bayeux Tapestry.”

“What will you do, good greybeard? Break a lance, And run a-tilt at Death within a chair?”

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