lancer

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree French lancierbor. English lancer Borrowed from French lancier (“lancer”).

1. A cavalry soldier armed with a lance weapon.
2. Any of various Asian hesperiid butterflies of the genus Plastingia.
3. One who lances something.

   “The evolutional descendants of those early shavers of beards and lancers of boils have made good (and, perhaps, nearly exclusive) use of the title […]”