LAUNCE

A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen.

A wooden spear, sometimes hollow, used in jousting or tilting, designed to shatter on impact with the opposing knight’s armour.

A spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen.

To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon.

"Seized the due victim, and with fury lanced Her back. Dryden."

To open with a lancet; to pierce

"to lance a vein or an abscess"

To throw in the manner of a lance; to lanch.

Sand eel, sand lance, fish of the family Ammodytidae