launce
Plural: launces
Noun
- A small, slender marine fish often used as bait.
- very small silvery eellike schooling fishes that burrow into sandy beaches
- Obsolete form of lance.
- sand eel, sand lance, fish of the family Ammodytidae
- A balance.
Verb
- Obsolete form of lance.
Examples
- Fishing for a LAUNCE of a word, he hoped to hook a high-scoring play.
Origin / Etymology
See lance.
Synonyms
sand eel, sand lance, sand launce
Scrabble Score: 8
launce: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordlaunce: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
launce: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 12
launce: valid Words With Friends Word