(formerly) a cavalryman armed with a lance

British cavalryman. After the switch to trench warfare, the lancers took up an infantry role.

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.

A lancer (uhlan) was a cavalry soldier who fought with a lance.

Lancer is a fictional character from the Japanese visual novel and anime series Fate/stay night by TYPE-MOON.

Lancer is a 1968-1970 western television series starring Andrew Duggan, James Stacy, and Wayne Maunder as a father and two sons, a kind of darker and more complex version of the more successful Bonanza. Stacy appears as half-Mexican gunslinger Johnny Madrid Lancer while Duggan plays Murdoch Lancer, a less wholly admirable patriarch than Ben Cartwright of "Bonanza," and Wayne Maunder portrays Scott Lancer. Guest stars include Warren Oates, Sam Elliott, Ron Howard, Bruce Dern, Dub Taylor, Cloris Leachman, Stephanie Powers, and Joe Don Baker.

A lancet.

The all-purpose term for High Guard ground troops. Affectionately nicknamed "rock hoppers" by their ship-based comrades, Lancers typically form the spearhead of any Commonwealth ground action, with mobilized Home Guard units providing support as needed.

A set of quadrilles of a certain arrangement.

A variation of Sergeant, based on equestrian activities.