Definizione monolingua

lance

lance (third-person singular simple present lances, present participle lancing, simple past and past participle lanced)

1. To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon.

   Seized the due victim, and with fury lanced Her back. Dryden.

2. To open with a lancet; to pierce; as, to lance a vein or an abscess.
3. To throw in the manner of a lance; to lanch.

lance (plural lances)

1. A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen.
   • 1590, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part III, Act II, Scene III, line 15.

     Thy brother’s blood the thirsty earth hath drunk, Broach’d with the steely point of Clifford’s lance...

   • 1909, Charles Henry Ashdown, European Arms & Armor, page 65.

     The head of the lance was commonly of the leaf form, and sometimes approached that of the lozenge; it was very seldom barbed, although this variety, together with the others, appears upon the Bayeux Tapestry.

2. A wooden spear, sometimes hollow, used in jousting or tilting, designed to shatter on impact with the opposing knight’s armour.
   • 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part I, Act III, Scene II, line 49.

     What will you do, good greybeard? Break a lance, And run a-tilt at Death within a chair?

3. A spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen.
4. (military) A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer.
5. (military) An instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordnance and forces it home.
6. (Founding) A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell.
7. (Pyrotechnics) One of the small paper cases filled with combustible composition, which mark the outlines of a figure.
8. (medicine) A lancet.

Definizione dizionario lance

	lancia
	weapon of war

fiocina

incidere

incidere col bisturi

lancia da giostra

Altri significati:

	{{qualifier|military
	spear (shogi)
	(military) A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer.
	A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen.
	lance (shogi)
	wooden weapon used in jousting or tilting
	To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon.
	(Pyrotechnics) One of the small paper cases filled with combustible composition, which mark the outlines of a figure.
	(military) An instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordnance and forces it home.
	(Founding) A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell.
	(medicine) A lancet.
	spear or harpoon used by whalers
	To throw in the manner of a lance; to lanch.
	A wooden spear, sometimes hollow, used in jousting or tilting, designed to shatter on impact with the opposing knight’s armour.
	To open with a lancet; to pierce; as, to lance a vein or an abscess.
	A spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen.