lancer
Americannoun
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
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Etymology
Origin of lancer
From the Middle French word lancier, dating back to 1580–90. See lance 1, -er 2
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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
A successful free lancer usually submits at least four or five article ideas for every one a magazine takes.
From Time Magazine Archive
A onetime screen writer and free lancer, he went to New York last summer to help his dad do vacation relief for Walter Winchell.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mexico had not lost even so much as a mule, but the ground was strewn with cigarettes and other merchandise, and the lancer force had been warned that they were in front of a battery.
From The Lost Gold of the Montezumas A Story of the Alamo by Stoddard, William O.
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
Both sides maneuvered warily for a great battle for the mountain passes due north of Madrid last captured by Napoleon's lancers in 1808.
From Time Magazine Archive
Herzberg is adding still more, including full-color reproductions of paintings, a two-page condensation of a bestseller, two pages of personality photographs, extra text-pieces each week by the Trib's own staffers or free lancers.
From Time Magazine Archive
What sent the Turkish legions pell mell back across the plains of Hungary was the arrival of the galloping lancers of King John Sobieski of Poland.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ser Jacelyn Bywater went in front, heading a wedge of mounted lancers in black ringmail and golden cloaks.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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