Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A cavalryman armed with a lance.
- noun A member of a regiment originally armed with lances.
- noun A kind of quadrille.
- noun The music for this dance.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who carries a lance; a soldier armed with a lance.
- noun One who lances.
- noun A lancet.
- noun plural A popular set of quadrilles, first used in England about 1820. Also
lanciers . - noun Music for such a set of dances.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who lances; one who carries a lance; especially, a member of a mounted body of men armed with lances, attached to the cavalry service of some nations.
- noun obsolete A lancet.
- noun (Dancing) A set of quadrilles of a certain arrangement.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun military A
cavalry soldier armed with alance weapon
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (formerly) a cavalryman armed with a lance
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[French lancier, from Old French, maker of lances, from lance, lance; see lance.]
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