lance
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noun
/lɑːns/
a weapon with a long wooden handle and a pointed metal end that was used by people fighting on horses in the past
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/lɑːns/
1 transitive lance something to cut open an infected place on somebody’s body with a sharp knife in order to let out the pus (= a yellow substance produced by infection) to lance an abscess
2 intransitive + adv./prep. (of a pain) to move suddenly and quickly and be very sharp Pain lanced through his body.
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