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lancer (lansər)

noun

a cavalry soldier armed with a lance or a member of a cavalry regiment originally armed with lances

Etymology: Fr lancier < LL lancearius

lancer Usage Examples

Converse of object

mount: Their dreams were dominated by the glorious spectacle of panic-stricken infantrymen flying before the sabers of a troop of mounted lancers.

Adjective modifier

  • 21st: A view showing horses of the 21st Lancers being pulled into freight trucks at Wadi Halfa.
  • free: Never one to be a team player, Blade is the quintessential free lancer.
  • Polish: A squadron of Hussars and thirty Polish Lancers were all whom I chose for the venture.
  • 16th: Then at Klip's Drift, on the 15th, 900 men of 9th and 16th Lancers charged the Boer defenses.
  • Russian: The Russian Lancer in the rear who stabbed me was killed by a comrade and I struck down the other.

Modifies a noun

  • regiment: Only one, a Lancer regiment, is to depended upon at St. Petersburg for absolute obedience to he orders of the Government.
  • perdu: Une vraie joie pour de se lancer à corps perdu dans une ambiance hors du réel.
  • dan: Une vraie joie pour de se lancer à corps perdu dans une ambiance hors du réel.
  • corps: Une vraie joie pour de se lancer à corps perdu dans une ambiance hors du réel.
  • à: Une vraie joie pour de se lancer à corps perdu dans une ambiance hors du réel.
  • range: The new alloys are shod with Yokohama 17-inch tires, which are shared with the rest of the Lancer Evolution range.

Noun used with modifier

B-1B: Then again, when you have a USAF Rockwell B-1B Lancer attending everyday you can maybe forgive them.

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