Definitions for LANCE

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LANCE lance

Spelling: [lans, lahns]

IPA: /læns, lɑns/

Lance is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 66 anagrams from letters in LANCE (aceln).

Definitions for LANCE

noun

1. a long wooden shaft with a pointed metal head, used as a weapon by knights and cavalry soldiers in charging.
2. a cavalry soldier armed with such a weapon; lancer.
3. an implement resembling the weapon, as a spear for killing a harpooned whale.
4. (initial capital letter) Military. a U.S. Army surface-to-surface rocket with a range of 47 miles (75 km) and capable of carrying a tactical nuclear warhead.
5. a lancet.
6. oxygen lance.
7. Machinery. a tube having a nozzle for cleaning furnace walls and other inaccessible surfaces with air, water, or steam. a pipe for directing oxygen onto a heated metal object in order to burn a hole in it, the lance also being consumed so as to add to the heat.
8. sand lance.
9. a male given name.

verb (used with object)

1. to open with or as if with a lancet.
2. to pierce with a lance.
3. to cut through (concrete or the like) with an oxygen lance.

Origin of LANCE

1250-1300; Middle English launce Old French lance Latin lancea (perhaps

Examples for LANCE

Straight at Peter's undefended face drove Morella's lance, but lo!

And all I really knew about you was what I heard through lance, Inc.

"Ah, that trip with lance," he said, then glanced down, with those melancholy eyes.

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All admit or assert that the lance is in this warfare the better weapon.

If you didn't think lance Bass was having an awesome time being lance Bass, then think again.

And he can ride a horse and hold a lance, can he not, at any rate in your quarrel?

After Mia overdoses on heroin, Vincent brings her to the home of lance and Jody.

The lance then gets in the way and has to be tied to the saddle.

Fair on each shield struck a lance, and backward reeled their holders.