javelin
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 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.
Inflected forms:
form: javelins
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: javelins
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: javelining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: javelinning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: javelined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: javelined
pos: verb
tags: past
form: javelinned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: javelinned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A light spear thrown with the hand and used as a weapon.
pos: noun
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!
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
gloss: A metal-tipped spear thrown for distance in an athletic field event.
pos: noun
examples: I managed to medal in the javelin throw.
gloss: A javelinfish (Coelorinchus australis).
pos: noun
gloss: To pierce with a javelin.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Furrowing a giant oak, and javelining / With darted spikes and splinters of the wood
Eventually ostriches arrived and with arrows I shot them in the burning arena with arrows tipped with small bronze crescents Saw flies buzz at the array of javelinned lions Saw the looks on faces crookedly aghast when before them I hoisted a hacked off ostrich head and wagged my own and grinned
gloss: To throw like a javelin.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He will have questions of all sorts javelined at him from the benches on both sides, from above the gangway and from below it.
There is a thing no man may name; / It comes like beauty, goes like flame. / It haunts dim labyrinths of time / And enters every poet’s rhyme. / Its cry is heard upon the wind / When it is high and javelinned, / And on still nights its steps are heard, / Soft as the footfalls of a bird.
The year the tornado swept through, it scattered the debris of two garages and their contents outward for hundreds of yards. An 8-foot 2-by-4 was javelinned through my bedroom wall; its blunt end stared at me just three feet short of my bed.
good morning city. another day of digging. wrapping. numbering. dnaing. […] of reciting a poem by li po. about forever. about wrapping forever into a ball. about wrapping forever into a ball and javelinning it out to sea. the beautiful beautiful sea.
To retrieve the mophead she would have to immerse her hand into the bucket’s stagnant grey water and kitchen-floor debris. At the thought of doing so, she javelinned the mop handle onto the floor, the speed and violence of which action, afterward, made her feel deranged.
gloss: To fall like a javelin.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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 loose aloft and javelined down until brought up short by the involved rigging.
The ants broke loose and attacked. In an attempt to beat them off, Ejeka lost grip of his whip which javelinned earthward.
Jagged bolts of lightning javelined down from the sky, attempting to skewer him with their electrical touch.
One man dropped his rifle from high up and it javelined down, with the muzzle burying itself deep in the ground.
Related words: discus
hammer
Derived words: javazon
javelin dart
javelineer
javelinier
javelinist
javelin sand boa
javelin throw
javelin thrower
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: копие
roman: kopie
lang: Catalan
word: javelina
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 標槍 /标枪
roman: biāoqiāng
lang: Czech
word: oštěp
lang: Danish
word: spyd
lang: Dutch
word: speer
lang: Esperanto
word: ĵetlanco
lang: Finnish
word: keihäs
lang: French
word: javelot
lang: Galician
word: xavelina
lang: Georgian
word: ხელშუბი
roman: xelšubi
lang: Georgian
word: სატყორცნი შუბი
roman: saṭq̇orcni šubi
lang: German
word: Speer
lang: Greek
word: ακόντιο
roman: akóntio
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἀκόντιον
roman: akóntion
lang: Hebrew
word: כידון
roman: kidón
lang: Hungarian
word: gerely
lang: Ido
word: javelino
lang: Indonesian
word: lembing
lang: Japanese
word: ジャベリン
roman: jaberin
lang: Japanese
word: 槍
roman: yari
lang: Latvian
word: šķēps
lang: Lithuanian
word: akstis
lang: Lithuanian
word: ietis
lang: Macedonian
word: копје
roman: kopje
lang: Malayalam
word: ജാവലിൻ
roman: jāvaliṉ
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: spyd
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: spyd
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: spjut
lang: Persian
word: نیزه
roman: neyze
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Spiess
lang: Polish
word: oszczep
lang: Portuguese
word: dardo
lang: Romanian
word: suliță
lang: Russian
word: копьё
roman: kopʹjó
lang: Slovak
word: oštep
lang: Slovene
word: kopje
lang: Spanish
word: jabalina
lang: Swedish
word: spjut
lang: Tagalog
word: balibabat
lang: Tagalog
word: habalina
lang: Thai
word: หลาว
roman: lǎao
lang: Thai
word: แหลน
roman: hlɛ̌ɛn
lang: Turkish
word: cirit
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: جرید
roman: cerid, cirid
lang: Ukrainian
word: спис
roman: spys
lang: Urdu
word: نیزَہ
roman: neza
lang: Welsh
word: gwaywffon