1a long weapon with a wooden shaft and a pointed steel head, formerly used by a horseman in charging:the warriors bore lances tipped with iron or steel
a weapon resembling a lance used in hunting fish or whales.
2 [usually with modifier] a metal pipe supplying a jet of oxygen to a furnace or to make a very hot flame for cutting.
3a rigid tube at the end of a hose for pumping or spraying liquid.
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prick or cut open (an abscess or boil) with a lancet or other sharp instrument:abscesses should not be lanced until there is a soft spot in the centre figurativethe prime minister made it one of his priorities to lance the boil of corruption
pierce with or as if with a lance:the teenager had been lanced by a wooden splinter [no object]:pain lanced through her
[no object, with adverbial of direction] move suddenly and quickly:he lanced through Harlequins' midfield to score Swansea’s lone try
[with object] archaic throw; hurl:he affirms to have lanced darts at the sun
