Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A cavalryman armed with a lance.
- noun A member of a regiment originally armed with lances.
- noun A kind of quadrille.
- noun The music for this dance.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who carries a lance; a soldier armed with a lance.
- noun One who lances.
- noun A lancet.
- noun plural A popular set of quadrilles, first used in England about 1820. Also
lanciers . - noun Music for such a set of dances.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who lances; one who carries a lance; especially, a member of a mounted body of men armed with lances, attached to the cavalry service of some nations.
- noun obsolete A lancet.
- noun (Dancing) A set of quadrilles of a certain arrangement.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun military A
cavalry soldier armed with alance weapon
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (formerly) a cavalryman armed with a lance
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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But no matter the rumors, he was known as a lancer of surpassing skill and surpassing power, and no Knight wanted to draw his lot when the tournament began.
Virginity Sydney Kilgore 2010
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Smoldering beneath the pleasant exterior and the uniform of a lancer is a magus - or a lancer with the power of a second-level adept.
The Magi'i Of Cyador Modesitt, L. E. 2000
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At Hulagur's call the lancer rode up to the waiting Apache, stretched out a booted foot in the heavy stirrup, and held down a hand to bring
The Defiant Agents Andre Norton 1958
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In any Polish dictionary they would have found the word defined as meaning "lancer," and the Uhlans in the Austrian army can hardly be described as modern
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I'm only commenting because word verification came up as, no shit, 'lancer'.
Yeah, they know where you live. CC 2009
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We enjoyed the spirit and verve of Andrew Cuomo's speech: the young lancer laying out the problem and part of his plan if there be a plan; the Albany veterans, expressing verbal support and encouragement, the infighting necessarily left for another day and a place outside public view.
Henry J. Stern: The Governor's Speech Henry J. Stern 2011
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We enjoyed the spirit and verve of Andrew Cuomo's speech: the young lancer laying out the problem and part of his plan if there be a plan; the Albany veterans, expressing verbal support and encouragement, the infighting necessarily left for another day and a place outside public view.
Henry J. Stern: The Governor's Speech Henry J. Stern 2011
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The differences between a member of the BSO and a talented free-lancer are very important.
In the ballpark Matthew Guerrieri 2009
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Simply drawn rape or bloody lancer slitting action with fountains of blood, i dont see a difference.
Was RapeLay 'Asking For It'? SVGL 2009
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I taught college courses in Economics and Political Science (I've a Ph. D) and I've written as a free-lancer for various publications.
john commented on the word lancer
The Republic P-43. More on Wikipedia.
December 30, 2008