Noun: lancet
| Singular | lancet |
| Plural | lancets |
Sample Sentences
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With a lancet, Håkan drained the slow blue blood from his leg, always fearing to find pus. [2017, Hernan Diaz, In the Distance, Daunt Books (2018), page 248:]
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He looked away, into the cavernous space emptying of people. Up in the galleries and behind the choir, the wide window lancets were sheets of black. [2014, Richard Powers, Orfeo, W. W. Norton & Company, page 234:]
Nouns inflected like lancet
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English launcet, from Old French lancete, a diminutive of lance. By surface analysis, lance + -et. See: Middle English Nouns '
launcet'.