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▸ noun: A wooden spear, sometimes hollow, used in jousting or tilting, designed to shatter on impact with the opposing knight’s armour.
▸ noun: (fishing) A spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen.
▸ noun: (military) A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer.
▸ noun: (military) An instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordnance and forces it home.
▸ noun: (metallurgy) A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell.
▸ noun: (pyrotechnics) One of the small paper cases filled with combustible composition, which mark the outlines of a figure.
▸ noun: (medicine) A lancet.
▸ verb: To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon.
▸ verb: To open with a lancet; to pierce.
▸ verb: To throw in the manner of a lance; to lanch.
▸ verb: (informal) to steal or swipe
▸ noun: A surname originating as a patronymic.
▸ noun: A male given name from the Germanic languages; by folk etymology associated with a lance.
▸ noun: A diminutive of the male given name Lancelot.
▸ noun: A male given name transferred from the surname.
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