lance

IPA(Pronunciation)

/lɑːns/

Noun

Japanese Meaning

戦争用の武器で、長い柄や取っ手に鋼製の刃や先端が付いた槍。騎兵が使用する武器。

The cavalryman raised his lance and charged toward the enemy lines.

騎兵は槍を掲げて敵陣に突進した。

Sense（1）

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

Sense（2）

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

Sense（3）

(fishing) A spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen.

Sense（4）

(military) A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer.

Sense（5）

(military) An instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordnance and forces it home.

Sense（6）

(metallurgy) A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell.

Sense（7）

(pyrotechnics) One of the small paper cases filled with combustible composition, which mark the outlines of a figure.

Sense（8）

(medicine) A lancet.

lances

（ plural ）