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Another word for lance

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Noun
      1. A small needle used to prick the skin, as to obtain blood samples for testing blood glucose levels, especially one designed to fit into a specially designed lancing device.
      2. A lancet window.
      3. (Medicine) A surgical knife with a short, wide, pointed double-edged blade, used especially for making punctures and small incisions.
      1. Any of a family (Esocidae, order Salmoniformes) of slender, voracious, freshwater bony fishes with a narrow, pointed head and conspicuous, sharp teeth; esp., a species (Esox lucius) of the northern parts of the Northern Hemisphere
      2. A hill with a pointed summit.
      3. A freshwater game and food fish (Esox lucius) of the Northern Hemisphere that has a long snout and attains a length of over 1.2 meters (4 feet).
      1. A game in which darts (see dart) are thrown at a target (dartboard)
      2. A small, pointed missile, usually with the rear end feathered, used as for throwing at a target in games or for shooting from a blowgun
      3. A slender, pointed missile, often having tail fins, thrown by hand, shot from a blowgun, or expelled by an exploding bomb.
    See also:

    spear

    weapon

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Sentence Examples

  • He peddled off like Lance Armstrong.

  • Note the wooden castle on a mound, and the knight handing over the keys on his lance tip.

  • With the discovery of the Lance, which became as it were a Provençal asset, Count Raymund assumes a new importance.

  • Where is the country's champion, the Moore of Moore Hill, to meet him at the Deep Cut and thrust an avenging lance between the ribs of the bloated pest?

  • A free lance, an independent, a journalist, or a preacher, without definite political affiliations, may create public opinion, but a legislator or an administrator must belong to a party.

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