Lance (disambiguation)

A lance is a pole weapon based on the spear.

Lance may also refer to:

People

• Lance (given name), including a list of people with the name
• Lance (surname), including a list of people with the name

In the military

• USS Lance (AM-257), a United States Navy World War II minesweeper
• MGM-52 Lance, a former United States Army mobile field artillery tactical surface-to-surface missile system
• Lance corporal, a military rank
• Lances fournies, a military unit centred on an armoured knight and his retinue

Places

• Lance, Missouri, a community in the United States
• Łańce, a village in Poland
• Lancé, a commune in Centre-Val de Loire, France

Transportation

• Piper PA-32R "Lance", a single-engine light airplane produced by Piper Aircraft
• Dennis Lance, a single-decker bus chassis manufactured by Dennis Specialist Vehicles
• Lance, a South Devon Railway Comet class steam locomotive

Other uses

• Lance Powersports, a scooter company
• Lance!, a Brazilian daily sports newspaper
• Lance Inc., a snack food company
• Lancet or lance, a type of medical scalpel with one or two sharp points that is typically used to make small puncture-type incision in the skin to drain puss or fluid
• AMD Lance Am7990 (Local Area Network Controller for Ethernet), an AMD Ethernet computer chip
• Lance, a game piece in shogi
• Lance or sand lance, various fish in the family Ammodytidae (sand eels)
• Oxygen lance, a pipe used in basic oxygen steelmaking

See also

• Lancer (disambiguation)
• Lancet (disambiguation)
• Lancing (disambiguation)
• Lantz (disambiguation)
• Lanz (disambiguation)
• Incision and drainage, known in the past as lancing, or to lance