lance

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[…]

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.

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?

A spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen.

A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer.

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

Prick or cut open with a sharp instrument.

Pierce with or as if with a lance.

Move suddenly and quickly

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

Seiz'd the due Victim, and with Fury lanch'd Her Back

To open with a lancet; to pierce.

to lance a vein or an abscess

To throw in the manner of a lance; to lanch.

to steal or swipe

He lanced my drink and spiked it!