lance
/læns/ verb C2- To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon.
- To open with a lancet; to prick or cut open with a sharp instrument; 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!
- To move suddenly and quickly.
He/she/it lances · Past lanced · Past participle lanced · -ing form lancing
Verb forms
- Base form
- lance
- He/she/it
- lances
- Past
- lanced
- Past participle
- lanced
- -ing form
- lancing
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If you can imagine a lance, or a battering ram, or a hammer weighing nearly half a ton driven by a cool, quiet mind living in the handle of it, you can roughly imagine what Kaa was like when he fought.
I don't quite look the smart Lance-Corporal Emsworth, of B Squadron, do I?"
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