lance
noun
a long wooden shaft with a pointed metal head, used as a weapon by knights and cavalry soldiers in charging.
lancelike
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a word derived from
lance.
Example Sentences
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It is doubtful whether the engaging and lancelike humors of this piece will interest a great many people for a protracted period.
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The steel army rolled vast, powder-white and terrible to a railroad crossing with lancelike antennae uplifted and colored guidons fluttering in the sun.
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Powered with an Allison engine with 100 less horsepower, the lancelike P37 gained 75 m.p.h.
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But far more swiftly than his half numbed brain could follow she was on her feet the next instant, tense and straight and lancelike in the gloom.
From Once to Every Man by Fischer, Anton Otto
And then she came up, up, with a leap so long, so lancelike, it recovered all she had lost.
From Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 by Various
