lancer
nounEtymology Borrowed from French lancier (“lancer”).
1
Government, Military, Politics, War A cavalry soldier armed with a lance weapon.
2
Biology, Entomology, Natural sciences Any of various Asian hesperiid butterflies of the genus Plastingia.
3
One who lances something.
- The evolutional descendants of those early shavers of beards and lancers of boils have made good (and, perhaps, nearly exclusive) use of the title […]1968, Journal of Secondary Education:
- Synonyms
- uhlan
- Coordinate terms
- cavalryman, cuirassier, dragoon, hussar, trooper, uhlan, yeoman