Usually means: Long spears used in jousting.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. lances: Merriam-Webster
  2. lances: Collins English Dictionary
  3. lances: Vocabulary.com
  4. Lance's, Lances, Lances, lance's, lances: Wordnik
  5. lances: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. lances: Wiktionary
  7. lances: Dictionary.com
  8. Lances: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. lances: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. lances: Legal dictionary

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  1. lances: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. lances: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. lances: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Lance)

noun:  A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen.
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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