Meaning

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

    Lanze

    пи́каpíka

  2. A wooden spear, sometimes hollow, used in jousting or tilting, designed to shatter on impact with the opposing knight’s armour.

    Lanze

  3. A spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen.

    Harpune

  4. A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer.

    Lanzer

    копейщикkopejščik

  5. An instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordnance and forces it home.

    Harpune mit Sprenggeschoss

  6. A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell.

  7. One of the small paper cases filled with combustible composition, which mark the outlines of a figure.

  8. A lancet.

  9. A piece in the game of shogi that can move directly forward any number of squares.

More definitions
  • a surgical knife with a pointed double-edged blade; used for punctures and small incisions
  • a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon
  • an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish

Examples

15 sentences
  1. The tongue wounds more than a lance.

    ruЯзык острее меча. — Pepeka

  2. I'm a free-lance writer in Japan.

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  3. The knight had a blue pennon hanging from the end of his lance.

    deDer Ritter hatte einen blauen Wimpel am Ende seiner Lanze hängen. — Yorwba

  4. This is a lance.

    ruЭто копьё. — odexed

    deDas ist eine Lanze. — Yorwba

  5. That's a lance.

    deDas ist eine Lanze. — Yorwba

Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
weapon of war:
(military) soldier armed with a lance:
Deutsch
By meaning 4
weapon of war:
spear or harpoon used by whalers:
(military) soldier armed with a lance:
(military) instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordinance:

Origin

From Middle English launce, from Old French lance, from Latin lancea.

From Middle English launce, from Old French lance, from Latin lancea.

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Forms

plural: lances
Singularlance
Plurallances

regular

Synonyms

6 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a surgical knife with a pointed double-edged blade; used for punctures and small incisions:lancet
  • a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon:spearshaft
  • an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish:speargigfizgigfishgig

Word family

31 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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