javelin
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javelin
- /ˈd͡ʒæv.(ə.)lɪn/
Rhymes with -ævlɪn
Where it comes from
From Middle English chafeveleyn, gavelong, from Old French javelline, diminutive of javelot, diminutive of *javel, from Vulgar Latin *gabalus, from Gaulish gabulum (compare Old Irish gabul (“fork”), Welsh gafl), from Proto-Celtic *gablā (“fork, forked branch”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeh₁bʰ-. The Old French term was also borrowed into Middle Low German as gaveline, and into Middle High German as gabilot. Cognate with gavelock, gaffle.
noun javelins
- 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 plag
- A metal-tipped spear thrown for distance in an athletic field event. I managed to medal in the javelin throw.
- A javelinfish (Coelorinchus australis).
verb javelins · javelining · javelinning · javelined · javelinned
- 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.
- To fall like a javelin. For answer the ship righted as she rolled upon another great swell, leaned as far the other side, and crashed, bows first, into a cleft rock under water which held her as in a vise while her jib boom flew up in splinters, and her foretopgallant and royal mast, with yards and gear and sails, tore loo
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Talk about this word "javelin." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/javelin. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. javelin. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/javelin "javelin." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/javelin.Cite this
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title = {javelin},
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year = {2026},
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