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LANCER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does lancer mean?
• LANCER (noun)
The noun LANCER has 1 sense:
1. (formerly) a cavalryman armed with a lance
Familiarity information: LANCER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(formerly) a cavalryman armed with a lance
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("lancer" is a kind of...):
cavalryman; trooper (a soldier mounted on horseback)
Context examples
And I have one hundred archers and a score of lancers, but there are two hundred men who wait for me on this side of the water upon the borders of Navarre.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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