Definitions
open by piercing with a lancet
Word origin
From Middle English launce, from Old French lance, from Latin lancea.
Used in a sentence
“Thy brother’s blood the thirsty earth hath drunk, Broach’d with the steely point of Clifford’s lance[…]”
“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.”
“What will you do, good greybeard? Break a lance, And run a-tilt at Death within a chair?”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Long spear”5 letters
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