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語源

From 中期英語 launce, from Old French lance, from Latin lancea.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: läns, IPA: /lɑːns/
• (米国発音) enPR: lăns, IPA: /læns/
• 韻: -ɑːns, -æns

名詞

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.
   • c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [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 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [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 whaling implement consisting of a long wooden shaft with a projecting iron shank tipped with a broad, leaf-shaped cutting blade, used to kill harpooned whales by repeated thrusts.
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. (metallurgy) 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.
9. A piece in the game of shogi that can move directly forward any number of squares.

派生語

関連する語

• lancet

動詞

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.
   • 1700, [John] Dryden, “Theodore and Honoria, from Boccace”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 268:

     Seiz'd the due Victim, and with Fury lanch'd Her Back

2. (medicine) To open with a lancet; to prick or cut open with a sharp instrument; to pierce.

   to lance a vein or an abscess

3. To throw in the manner of a lance; to lanch.
4. (informal) To steal or swipe.

   He lanced my drink and spiked it!

5. To move suddenly and quickly.

引用

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:lance.

派生語

参考

• javelin
• pike
• spear

アナグラム

• Calne, Lenca, ancle, clane, clean

名詞

lance

1. alternative form of launce

語源 2

動詞

lance

1. alternative form of launcen

名詞

lance

1. ablative singular of lanx