lancer
Americannoun
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lancers
plural
noun
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(formerly) a cavalryman armed with a lance
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a member of a regiment retaining such a title
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( plural; capital when part of a name )
the 21st Lancers
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Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of lancer
From the Middle French word lancier, dating back to 1580–90. See lance 1, -er 2
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Boyer, 52, free lancer who has contributed profiles to The New Yorker and also written for the Daily Worker.
From Time Magazine Archive
A successful free lancer usually submits at least four or five article ideas for every one a magazine takes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Now a free lancer, he eats a leisurely breakfast, and at 11:30 a.m. hops into his Cadillac and drives to work.
From Time Magazine Archive
The idea is that this Bengal lancer has already had, if not nine lives like a cat, at any rate more than one.
From Time Magazine Archive
I should feel like a wild pig if a lancer speared me.
From The Red Hand of Ulster by George A. Birmingham
In a stark contrast to Roman tactics, Persia relied on cavalry instead of infantry, including both heavy, armored lancers and highly mobile mounted bowmen.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
For three hours at Kaduna. 3,000 turbaned horsemen, 7,000 warriors in medieval chain mail, archers, lancers, musketeers, musicians, dancers, tumblers and snake charmers paraded by.
From Time Magazine Archive
Modern cavalrymen are more like the old mounted infantry than traditional lancers, seldom or never fire from horseback, carry not a single sabre.
From Time Magazine Archive
While inspecting an honor guard of lancers, he suddenly glanced to his left, broke into a broad grin and roared: "Barbara, so you did come."
From Time Magazine Archive
Behind followed nine tenths of their horse; knights, lancers, freeriders, and mounted bowmen. ^ took hours for them all to cross.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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