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lancer

noun

Etymology

From French lancier (“lancer”).

  1. borrowed from lancier

Definitions

  1. A cavalry soldier armed with a lance weapon.

  2. Any of various Asian hesperiid butterflies of the genus Plastingia.

  3. One who lances something.

    • The evolutional descendants of those early shavers of beards and lancers of boils have made good (and, perhaps, nearly exclusive) use of the title […]

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA