- lance⇄expr. carry the (or a) lance for, defend or argue in favor of.
Ex. Miss Butler, carrying a lance for Sarah and the Churchills, charges magnificently up and down the field goring the opposition andreducing Abigail Hill to mincemeat (London Times). - lance⇄lance (1), noun, verb, lanced,lancing.
- lance⇄lance (2), noun. launce.
- lance⇄noun 1. a long wooden spear with a sharp iron or steel head.
Ex. The knights and some cavalry troops carried lances as they rode into battle.
2. lancer.
3a. any instrument like a soldier's lance. A spear for harpooning a whale is call - lance⇄sand launce orlance
any one of various small, elongate, marine fishes which burrow into the sand along beaches when the tide goes out; sand eel. - lance⇄v.i. to dart, rush, or bound away.
- lance⇄v.t. 1. to pierce with or as if with a lance.
Ex. to lance a fish. They lanced his flesh with knives (John Bunyan).
(SYN) cut, gash, slit.
2. to cut open with a surgeon's knife.
Ex. The dentist lanced the gum where a new tooth h