Lance (disambiguation)

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A lance is a pole weapon based on the spear.

Lance may also refer to:

People

  • Lance (given name), including a list of people with the name
  • Lance (surname), including a list of people with the name

In the military

  • USS Lance (AM-257), a United States Navy World War II minesweeper
  • MGM-52 Lance, a former United States Army mobile field artillery tactical surface-to-surface missile system
  • Lance corporal, a military rank
  • Lances fournies, a military unit centred on an armoured knight and his retinue

Places

  • Lance, Missouri, a community in the United States
  • Łańce, a village in Poland
  • Lancé, a commune in Centre-Val de Loire, France

Transportation

  • Piper PA-32R "Lance", a single-engine light airplane produced by Piper Aircraft
  • Dennis Lance, a single-decker bus chassis manufactured by Dennis Specialist Vehicles
  • Lance, a South Devon Railway Comet class steam locomotive

Other uses

  • Lance Powersports, a scooter company
  • Lance!, a Brazilian daily sports newspaper
  • Lance Inc., a snack food company
  • Lancet or lance, a type of medical scalpel with one or two sharp points that is typically used to make small puncture-type incision in the skin to drain puss or fluid
  • AMD Lance Am7990 (Local Area Network Controller for Ethernet), an AMD Ethernet computer chip
  • Lance, a game piece in shogi
  • Lance or sand lance, various fish in the family Ammodytidae (sand eels)
  • Oxygen lance, a pipe used in basic oxygen steelmaking

See also

  • Lancer (disambiguation)
  • Lancet (disambiguation)
  • Lancing (disambiguation)
  • Lantz (disambiguation)
  • Lanz (disambiguation)
  • Incision and drainage, known in the past as lancing, or to lance
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