lancer Definition
lancer (lans′ər)
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.
Browse dictionary entries near lancer
- ‹ lanceolate
- ‹ Lancelot
- ‹ lancelet
- ‹ lance-shaped
- ‹ lance corporal
- ‹ lance
- ‹ Lancastrian
- ‹ Lancaster
- ‹ Lancashire
- ‹ lanate
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