lancer

Etymology

From French lancier (“lancer”).

noun

  1. (military) A cavalry soldier armed with a lance weapon.
  2. (entomology) 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

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