NOUN
  • Definition - A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen.
  • Definition - A wooden spear, sometimes hollow, used in jousting or tilting, designed to shatter on impact with the opposing knight’s armour.
  • Definition - A spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen.
  • Definition - A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer.
  • Definition - An instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordnance and forces it home.
  • Definition - (founding) A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell.
  • Definition - One of the small paper cases filled with combustible composition, which mark the outlines of a figure.
  • Definition - A lancet.
VERB
  • Definition - To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon.
  • Example - Seized the due victim, and with fury lanced Her back. Dryden.
  • Definition - To open with a lancet; to pierce
  • Example - to lance a vein or an abscess
  • Definition - To throw in the manner of a lance; to lanch.
  • Example - to lance a vein or an abscess
Words in your word
6 Letter Words
cleans 8 lances 8
5 Letter Words
acnes 7 alecs 7 canes 7 clans 7 clean 7 laces 7 lance 7 scale 7 scena 7 elans 5 lanes 5 leans 5
4 Letter Words
aces 6 acne 6 alec 6 cals 6 cane 6 cans 6 case 6 cels 6 clan 6 lace 6 lacs 6 scan 6 ales 4 anes 4 elan 4 lane 4 lase 4 lean 4 leas 4 lens 4 naes 4 sale 4 sane 4 seal 4
3 Letter Words
ace 5 cal 5 can 5 cel 5 lac 5 sac 5 sec 5 ale 3 als 3 ane 3 els 3 ens 3 las 3 lea 3 les 3 nae 3 sae 3 sal 3 san 3 sea 3 sel 3 sen 3
2 Letter Words
ae 2 al 2 an 2 as 2 el 2 en 2 es 2 la 2 na 2 ne 2
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