lance

名词 n. 动词 v.
/lɑːns/    /læns/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen.
    — Thy brother’s blood the thirsty earth hath drunk, Broach’d with the steely point of Clifford’s lance[…]
  2. A wooden spear, sometimes hollow, used in jousting or tilting, designed to shatter on impact with the opposing knight’s armour.
    — What will you do, good greybeard? Break a lance, And run a-tilt at Death within a chair?
  3. A spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen.
  4. A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer.
  5. An instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordnance and forces it home.
  6. A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell.
  7. One of the small paper cases filled with combustible composition, which mark the outlines of a figure.
  8. A lancet.
  9. A piece in the game of shogi that can move directly forward any number of squares.
动词 v.
  1. To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon.
    — Seiz'd the due Victim, and with Fury lanch'd Her Back
  2. 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. to steal or swipe informal
    — He lanced my drink and spiked it!
  5. To move suddenly and quickly.

词形变化

lances plural lances present,singular,third-person lancing participle,present lanced participle,past lanced past

词源

词源 1
From Middle English launce, from Old French lance, from Latin lancea.
词源 2
From Middle English launce, from Old French lance, from Latin lancea.
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