noun, verb
noun a weapon with a long wooden handle and a pointed metal end that was used by people fighting on horses in the past
verb [VN] to cut open an infected place on sb's body with a sharp knife in order to let out the PUS (= a yellow substance produced by infection):
to lance an abscess
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for lance is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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