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   Lance

   /lans/

   

   noun

   • 1. a long weapon for thrusting, having 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 weapon resembling a lance used in hunting fish or whales.
   • ▪ another term for lancer
   • 2. a metal pipe supplying a jet of oxygen to a furnace or to a hot flame for cutting.
   • 3. a rigid tube at the end of a hose for pumping or spraying liquid.

   verb

   • 1. prick or cut open with a lancet or other sharp instrument: "abscesses should not be lanced until there is a soft spot in the center"
   • ▪ pierce with or as if with a lance: "the teenager had been lanced by a wooden splinter"
   • ▪ move suddenly and quickly: "pain lanced through her"
   • ▪ fling; launch: "he affirms to have lanced darts at the sun"

   Word Origin Middle English: from Old French lance (noun), lancier (verb), from Latin lancea (noun).

   Scrabble Points: 7

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