Launce

Word LAUNCE
Character 6
Hyphenation launce
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Launce"

What do we mean by launce?

An obsolete form of lance.

See lance. noun

See lant, the fish. noun

A balance. noun

A lance. noun

Greater sand eel, Hyperoplus lanceolatus noun

A lance. noun

A balance. noun

Very small silvery eellike schooling fishes that burrow into sandy beaches noun

A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen.

A wooden spear, sometimes hollow, used in jousting or tilting, designed to shatter on impact with the opposing knight’s armour.

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.

(founding) A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell.

One of the small paper cases filled with combustible composition, which mark the outlines of a figure.

A lancet.

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The word "launce" in example sentences

I take it you don't remember OS 9 (or 8), or the lovely launch of Leopard (the GM going to devs one week before launce). ❋ Unknown (2009)

Some of them vpon the necke of their launce haue an hooke, wherewithall they attempt to pull men out of their saddles. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Thei cannot handle a target: nor but fewe of theim a launce or a long sweard. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Hereupon when a great company of such gentlewomen ride together, and are beheld a far off, they seem to be souldiers with helmets on their heads carrying their launces vpright: for the said Botta appeareth like an helmet with a launce ouer it. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The Arabiens vse in their warres swerde, bowe, launce, slinge, and battle ax. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Secondly, of _Ahabs_ disease exceeding in externall humiliation, affected gestures, passionate sighes, lowdnesse of voyce, odde attires & such like: These know how to rend the garment, hang the head with the bulrush, to whip and launce their skinnes with _Baals_ Priests; and yet strangers to a wounded spirit: not but that true and hearty zeale doth lift up the eyes, knocke the breast, dance before the Arke. ❋ Samuel Ward (N/A)

His faire enchaunted steed, and eke his charmed launce. ❋ Edmund Spenser (N/A)

Ah! swythenn [34] mie shielde & tyltynge launce bee bounde [35]. ❋ Thomas Chatterton (N/A)

When the dyre clatterynge of the shielde and launce ❋ Thomas Chatterton (N/A)

Forr you the longe tylte-launce, the swerde hee shente [131]; ❋ Thomas Chatterton (N/A)

I take the challenge; squyre, mie launce and stede. ❋ Thomas Chatterton (N/A)

Withe hys tylte launce hee stroke with thilk a myghte, ❋ Thomas Chatterton (N/A)

He couch'd hys launce, and ran wyth mickle myghte 135 ❋ Thomas Chatterton (N/A)

Lyche forreying [97] levynn [98], schalle mie tylte-launce flie. ❋ Thomas Chatterton (N/A)

In his dere hartes bloude his longe launce was wett, ❋ Thomas Chatterton (N/A)

The skuas, darker and more courageous birds, are familiar to those who spend their August holiday sea-fishing near the Land's End, where, particularly on days when the east wind brings the gannets and porpoises close inshore, the great skua may be seen at its favourite game of swooping on the gulls and making them disgorge or drop their launce or pilchard, which the bird usually retrieves before it reaches the water. ❋ Unknown (1894)

But "crusions" are golden carp, and when I was a child the Devonshire fishermen used to call the long white fish with argent stripes (whose proper name, I think, is the launce) a silverling. ❋ Edmund Gosse (1888)

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