Meaning of Javelin | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A light spear thrown with the hand and used as a weapon.
2. A metal-tipped spear thrown for distance in an athletic field event.
3. A javelinfish (Coelorinchus australis).

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Examples

“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.”

“Flies the javelin swifter to its mark, / Launched by the vigour of a Roman arm?”

“With what apprehensions we proceeded, ignorant at what moment we might be greeted by the javelin of some ambushed savage!”

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“As a lion or wild boar turns fiercely on the dogs and men that attack him, while these form a solid wall and shower their javelins as they face him—his courage is all undaunted, but his high spirit will be the death of him;[…]”

“Searching through snow / For the javelin I had not / Meant to throw right at you / For if it had hit its mark / There’d be blood in the place / Where you stood”

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