"Lancing" refers to the act of making a small cut or puncture in the skin or body in order to release fluid or relieve pressure from a wound or abscess. Full definition
I wish I could become a free lance writer who doesn't have a day job like you did. (lindsayburoker.com)
Pulsars are the high - density, rapidly spinning corpses of dead stars, raking any planets in orbit around them with searing lances of radiation. (earthsky.org)