A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen, and often decorated with a small flag; also, a spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen.

A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer.

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

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

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

A thin cardboard tube packed with color-producing pyrotechnic composition used to construct ground display pieces.

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

A cutter used to pierce a small hole in the closed end of a cigar. See also Bullet Cutter, Bull's Eye Piercer.

A cutter used to pierce a small hole in the closed end of a cigar. Also called a piercer.

In Kenpo, we refer to a knife as a lance.

a surgical knife with a pointed double-edged blade; used for punctures and small incisions

Knife attack

Lance Craner was one of the more popular gay porn stars during the 1980s. He was born David Alan Reis in Santa Barbara County, California (some sources say Oklahoma), on November 25, 1962. He was most well-known for his pairings with Leo Ford in Leo & Lance and Blonds Do It Best, both directed by William Higgins.

Lance by Warren Tufts was one of the last of the full page comic strips. Beautifully written and drawn, it was self-syndicated by the artist, and never achieved the popularity it deserved. Historians of the comic strip rate it as one of the great strips, but people still remember the much older strip Terry and the Pirates while Lance is forgotten except by a few die-hard fans.

A long water-cooled metallic shaft through which oxygen is blown into the electric arc furnace. NatSteel Asia uses one remotely operated lance at the electric arc furnace.

an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish

A unit consisting of 4 'Mechs or vehicles.

a unit of military strength

High performance database independent java web framework. Provides a generic SQL variant to speed up development.

move quickly, as if by cutting one's way; "Planes lanced towards the shore"

Line Algorithm for Navigation in a Combat Environment

To throw in the manner of a lance. See Lanch.

Local Area Network Controller for Ethernet.

A lancet.