Lances is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LANCES in dictionary:

VERB:
• LANCE, to pierce with a spearlike weapon
• prick or cut open (an abscess or boil) with a lancet or other sharp instrument
• pierce with or as if with a lance
• move suddenly and quickly
• throw; hurl
NOUN:
• a long weapon with a wooden shaft and a pointed steel head, formerly used by a horseman in charging
• a weapon resembling a lance used in hunting fish or whales.
• a metal pipe supplying a jet of oxygen to a furnace or to make a very hot flame for cutting.
• a rigid tube at the end of a hose for pumping or spraying liquid.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to pierce with a lance (a spearlike weapon)

Words related to LANCES

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How to use LANCES in a sentence

• They were provided with long lances and heavy swords, and horse as well as man was fully equipped with defensive armor.
• The derelict helmets and lances that covered the fields show that the charge pressed well up to the guns and to the trenches in the turnip fields where the Belgian soldiers lay.
• Hence, when a number of these ladies are seen together on horseback, they appear at a distance like soldiers armed with helmets and lances.
• He was lying on five lances tied together, which ten warriors sustained by five other lances passed across beneath.
• Cannon, lances, and swords, were opposed to the English bayonet alone.
• Resist we cannot! Weapons we have none, And see the wood of lances round us! See! MELCH.
• When people come to cross the line, take your bows and arrows, your lances and your battle axes, and give them battle and keep them out.
• Some Indians went out to meet him, brandishing their lances in order to prevent his entrance.
• In the solemn inclosure, where all stood at salute, the veterans stood with lances.
• But both lances were successfully parried, and a moment later the combatants had leaped with one impulse from horseback, and were rushing upon each other with swords.
• The lances of light met the spears of dark, and there was a flash which blinded Ross, a sound which split open the whole world.
• They have other arms, such as lances and staves, with heads finely wrought.
• Such a summons, backed by lances, placed them in a very embarrassing position.
• Two tough yule lances burst into a hundred splinters.
• We continued the attack during the whole day to very little purpose, being unable to force the ramparts, which were guarded by above 2000 men armed with lances.
• They galloped past him, their lances at salute and dashed with a clatter of hoofs into the valley below.
• All were strongly armed with guns, pistols, swords, and lances, and we really looked as though we sallied forth with the intention of having a sharp skirmish.
• Then the knight mounted his horse and made himself ready, and charging at each other they met so hard that both their lances splintered into pieces.
• When they had saluted one another, and presented themselves against each other with their lances aloft, they put spurs to their horses and began a fierce encounter.
• On the latter they set wooden castles which carry from ten to sixteen persons, armed with lances, swords, and stones, so that they fight to great purpose from these castles.
• They wear no armour, but carry only a shield of hide, besides their swords and lances, and so a marvellous number of them fall in battle.
• Lieutenant Shortland was desirous to purchase one of their lances, but could not obtain it.
• The sun was sifting blood-red lances through the trees.
• One slave was worth so many goats, lances, or knives, and one large canoe would buy several women.
• Then they dressed their shields, laid their lances in rest, and rushed upon each other.
• So the two took their lances and rushed upon one another with a crash like thunder, and each broke his spear.
• The young baronet, even in the fierce heat of the hunt, could see the beautiful glowing face, the flashing gray eyes, and the lances of light flickering in the gold-brown hair.

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