noun A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen.
noun A wooden spear, sometimes hollow, used in jousting or tilting, designed to shatter on impact with the opposing knight’s armour.
noun A whaling implement consisting of a long wooden shaft with a projecting iron shank tipped with a broad, leaf-shaped cutting blade, used to kill harpooned whales by repeated thrusts.
noun A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer.
noun An instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordnance and forces it home.
noun A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell.
noun One of the small paper cases filled with combustible composition, which mark the outlines of a figure.