(n.) One who lances; one who carries a lance; especially, a member of a mounted body of men armed with lances, attached to the cavalry service of some nations.
(n.) A lancet.
(n.) A set of quadrilles of a certain arrangement.
Example Sentences:
(1) • The Queen's Royal Lancers are to be amalgamated with the 9th and 12th Royal Lancers.
(2) Corporal Matthew Millington, 31, of the Queen's Royal Lancers, was stationed in Iraq in 2005 when he was diagnosed with an incurable condition which left him unable to breathe; he was told that he would die unless he had a lung transplant.
(3) The badge, known as "the motto", is worn by the Queen's Royal Lancers.
(4) The Queen's Royal Lancers emerged from a number of regiments which took part in the Charge of the Light Brigade in the Crimean war, Waterloo, the last great British cavalry charge at Omdurman in Sudan in which a young Lieutenant Winston Churchill led a troop, and Ypres in the first world war.
(5) The present study was undertaken to determine the effects of the primer component of Mono-Lok (Rocky Mountain) and the primer component of Control (Lancer Pacific) on skin.
(6) The English killed our king Llywelyn [who is regarded as the last leader of a united and independent Wales and died at the hand of an English lancer in 1282].
(7) Also examined are two independent studies made of the informational adequacy of the LANCER project documents.
(8) This finding was recorded in all the cases when wound direction was perpendicular to Lancer's lines of the skin area in which the wound was located.
(9) An evaluation of a photoelectric clot timer, the Lancer Coagulyzer, in measuring the one-stage prothrombin time has been carried out.
(10) Flexible fibreoptic rhinolaryngoscopy has been shown to be an accurate, reliable, inexpensive and safe method of examining the upper aero-digestive tract (Lancer and Moir, 1985).
(11) It was joined by a sapphire and silver brooch given by HMS Ocean, a navy helicopter carrier, and a diamante brooch from the Queen’s Royal Lancers.
(12) Four automated coagulation instruments were evaluated for performance of prothrombin time and activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT): the Dade Auto-Fi, General Diagnostics Dual Channel Coag-a-Mate, MLA Electra 600D, and Sherwood Lancer Coagulyzer.