Lancing


[lans, lahns] /læns, lɑns/

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.
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7.
Machinery.

verb (used with object), lanced, lancing.
8.
to open with or as if with a lancet.
9.
to pierce with a lance.
10.
to cut through (concrete or the like) with an .
/lɑːns/
noun
1.
a long weapon with a pointed head used by horsemen to unhorse or injure an opponent
2.
a similar weapon used for hunting, whaling, etc
3.
(surgery) another name for lancet
4.
the sand lance See sand eel
verb (transitive)
5.
to pierce (an abscess or boil) with a lancet to drain off pus
6.
to pierce with or as if with a lance
n.

late 13c. (late 12c. as a surname), from Old French lance (12c.), from Latin lancea “light spear, Spanish lance” (Italian lancia, Spanish lanza), possibly of Celt-Iberian origin. The French word spread into Germanic (cf. German Lanze, Middle Dutch lanse, Dutch lans, Danish landse). Lance corporal (1786) is from obsolete lancepesade “officer of lowest rank” (1570s), from Old Italian lancia spezzata “old soldier,” literally “broken lance.”
v.

“to pierce with a lance,” c.1300, from Old French lancier, from Late Latin lanceare “wield a lance; pierce with a lance,” from lancea (see lance (n.)). The surgical sense (properly with reference to a lancet) is from late 15c. Related: Lanced; lancing.

lance (lāns)
n.
See lancet. v. lanced, lanc·ing, lanc·es
To make an incision in, as with a lancet.

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