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- Dictionarylance/lans/
noun
- 1. a long weapon for thrusting, having a wooden shaft and a pointed steel head, formerly used by a horseman in charging: "the warriors bore lances tipped with iron or steel"
- 2. a metal pipe supplying a jet of oxygen to a furnace or to a hot flame for cutting.
verb
- 1. prick or cut open with a lancet or other sharp instrument: "abscesses should not be lanced until there is a soft spot in the center"
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