Lance
Meaning of Lance
- a long weapon with a wooden shaft and a pointed steel head, formerly used by a horseman in charging.
the warriors bore lances tipped with iron or steel
- a metal pipe supplying a jet of oxygen to a furnace or to make a very hot flame for cutting.
- a rigid tube at the end of a hose for pumping or spraying liquid.
- prick or cut open (an abscess or boil) with a lancet or other sharp instrument.
abscesses should not be lanced until there is a soft spot in the centre
the prime minister made it one of his priorities to lance the boil of corruption
Middle English: from Old French lance (noun), lancier (verb), from Latin lancea (noun).
Information about Lance
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Hyphenation of Lance
Lance
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- Lance is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
Lance synonyms
Meaning spear:
spear, shaft, gig, fizgig, fishgig
Meaning lancet:
Meaning a long-bodied predatory freshwater fish with a pointed snout and large teeth, of both Eurasia and North America:
Meaning a light spear thrown in a competitive sport or as a weapon:
Meaning a blade that may be fixed to the muzzle of a rifle and used to stab an opponent in hand-to-hand fighting:
Meaning a barbed missile resembling a spear that is attached to a long rope and thrown by hand or fired from a gun, used for catching whales and other large sea creatures:
Anagrams of Lance
Ancel, ancle, Calen, canel, clean, Lenca
Words that rhyme with Lance
ance, saance, absorbance, bobance, disturbance, indisturbance, nondisturbance, perturbance, predisturbance, reprobance, undisturbance, impeccance, insignificance, nonsignificance, omnisignificance, presignificance, scance, signficance, significance, vacance, Sundance, abidance, abondance, abundance, accordance, adance, aidance, appendance, ascendance, attendance, avoidance, biddance, breakdance, clogdance, concordance, condordance, contradance, contredance, counterdance, dance, dependance, descendance, disaccordance, discordance, disregardance, exceedance, exundance, forbiddance, foreguidance, guidance