lancing

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noun

The act by which something is lanced.

UncommonScrabble 10

Meanings

lancing1

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of lance
nounlancing (plural lancings)

plural lancings

  1. The act by which something is lanced.

    Bernardo's physicians treated their lawyer-patient in the ordinary ignorant ways, with debilitating bleedings, plus helpful lancings of the abscessed boils.

    2011, Paul Oppenheimer, Machiavelli: A Life Beyond Ideology, page 46

Lancing2

proper noun
  1. A large village in Adur district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ1804).

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