lancer

Meanings

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   noun

   historical: a cavalry soldier armed with a lance

   The lancer lowered his weapon as the cavalry squadron began its charge.

Borrowed in the sixteenth century from French lancier ("soldier or knight armed with a lance"), from lance. Lance came through Old French from Latin lancea ("light spear"), a word that Roman writers regarded as having Iberian origin.

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