Lance
Lance verb - To penetrate or hold (something) with a pointed object.
Usage example: doctors used to lance infected sores, so that they could drain clean
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It was so advanced anatomically that it could handle the reins of a horse, the shaft of a lance, a playing card and even a feather quill to write a letter.
Source: Lost Technology
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Quill and Lance. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 13, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/lance/quill
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