How to pronounce“javelin”in English
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Definitions of “javelin”
A light spear thrown with the hand and used as a weapon.
“And when Phinehas the sonne of Eleazar, the sonne of Aaron the Priest saw it, hee rose vp from amongst the Congregation, and tooke a iauelin in his hand. And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them thorow, the man of Israel, and the woman, thorow her belly: So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.”
A metal-tipped spear thrown for distance in an athletic field event.
“I managed to medal in the javelin throw.”
To pierce with a javelin.
“Furrowing a giant oak, and javelining / With darted spikes and splinters of the wood”
To throw like a javelin.
“He will have questions of all sorts javelined at him from the benches on both sides, from above the gangway and from below it.”