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▪ I. javelin, n.|ˈdʒævəlɪn, ˈdʒævlɪn|
Also 6 iavelyn(e, -ynge, -inge, -en, Sc. ievilling, (geweling, iaivelin), 6–7 iaveling, -ine, 7 javlin.
[a. F. javeline (15th c. in Hatz.-Darm.); from the radical javel-, found also in javelot.]
1. a. A light spear thrown with the hand with or without the help of a thong; a dart.
1513[see javelin spear in 4]. 1530Palsgr. 233/2 Iavelyn a speare, jauelot. 1535Coverdale 1 Sam. xix. 10 Saul..had a iauelynge in his hande... And Saul thought with the iauelinge to sticke Dauid fast to the wall. 1592Shakes. Ven. & Ad. 616 (Globe) With javelin's point a churlish swine to gore. 1667Milton P.L. xi. 658 Others from the Wall defend With Dart and Jav'lin. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) III. 227 When the hunters approach him [the lion], they either shoot or throw their javelins. 1874Boutell Arms & Arm. i. 2 The arrow—either discharged from the bow or thrown as a javelin from the hand.
b. Her. A charge consisting of a short spear with a barbed head.
1882Cussans Handbk. Her. vii. (ed. 3) 122 When a plain Spear is intended, it must be blazoned as a Javelin.
†c. As rendering of L. jaculus, a serpent that darts on its prey; cf. dart n. 4. Obs. rare—1.
1718Rowe tr. Lucan ix, Fierce from afar a darting javelin shot, For such, the serpent's name has Afric taught.
d. fig.
1850Mrs. Browning An Island v, Where the grey rocks strike Their javelins up the azure. 1856Eliz. Warner Hills Shatemuc 242 The speaker was a well dressed and easy mannered man of the world, but with a very javelin of an eye. 1867Whittier Tent on Beach 197 Piercing the waves along its track With the slant javelins of rain.
†2.
a. A pointed weapon with a long shaft used for thrusting; a pike or half-pike; a lance. Obs.
1520Rutland Papers (Camden) 43 And lx of his [the king's] gard on horsbacke, with javelyns. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VIII, 235 b, Every man havyng a iavelyn or slaughsword to keepe the people in aray. 1576Extracts Aberdeen Reg. (1848) II. 27 Ane halberd, dence aiks, or geweling. 1656Blount Glossogr., Javeline, a weapon of a size between the Pike and Partisan. a1839Praed Poems (1864) II. 422 And see thy javelin's point be bright, Thy falchion's temper true.
b. One who bears a ‘javelin’; = javelin-man 1.
1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. iii. I. 338 There were the halls where the judges, robed in scarlet and escorted by javelins and trumpets, opened the king's commission twice a year.
†3. A fish: app. the pilchard or anchovy (both caught in immense numbers at Venice, and preserved for exportation). Obs. rare.
1655Moufet & Bennet Health's Improv. (1746) 244 Javelings or Sea-darts are plentiful in the Venetian Gulf, and all the Adriatic Sea.
4. attrib. and Comb., as javelin-bearer, javelin-head, javelin-spear; javelin-darting, javelin-proof adjs.; javelin-bat, a South American vampire, Phyllostoma hastatum; javelin-fish, a species of hæmulonid fish (Pomodasys hasta) (Funk); javelin-snake, a snake-like lizard of the genus Acontias = dart-snake (dart n. 4, 8); also applied to various species of Bothrops, an American genus of Crotalidæ or rattlesnakes; javelin-throwing, the throwing of a javelin as an athletic field event; also ellipt. as javelin.
1861Hulme tr. Moquin-Tandon ii. iv. i. 212 It has been asserted that..the Vampire and the *Javelin Bat..could destroy a man by sucking his blood.
1552Huloet, *Iauelyn bearer, lancearius.
1813Byron Br. Abydos i. ix, Nor mark'd the *javelin-darting crowd.
1552Huloet, *Iauelyn head, sicilites.
1866Conington æneid ii. 664 Screened by a pent house *javelin-proof.
1835Penny Cycl. IV. 529/1 These bones are absent in the fourth subgenus, Acontias (*Javelin-Snake) of Cuvier. 1847Carpenter Zool. §502 The Acontias, or Javelin Snake, of Southern Africa, is nearly allied to our Slow-worm. 1861Hulme tr. Moquin-Tandon ii. v. i. 257 The most formidable species is the Javelin Snake properly so called, or Yellow Viper of Martinique (Bothrops Lanceolatus).
1513Douglas æneis xii. iv. 14 The braid hed brangland on the *ievilling speyr.
1902Daily Chron. 7 Apr. 3/1 Professors in a university to teach *javelin-throwing. 1906Westm. Gaz. 3 May 10/2 Very pretty was the javelin-throwing, the long thin spear being launched high into the air. 1958Times 20 Aug. 2/6 Mrs. Zatopkova..won the women's javelin with a new European record of 183 ft. 9½ in. 1964J. J. Walsh Understanding Paraplegia xix. 128 Throwing and catching a medicine ball, javelin-throwing, and shot-putting, were all of use. 1974Country Life 14 Feb. 292/1 The big breakthrough..came from young Charles Clover in the javelin as he threw 278 ft 71/4 in.
▪ II. javelin, v.|ˈdʒævəlɪn, ˈdʒævlɪn|
[f. prec. n.]
trans. To strike or pierce with or as with a javelin.
1859Tennyson Vivien 934 Out of heaven a bolt..struck, Furrowing a giant oak, and javelining With darted spikes and splinters of the wood The dark earth round. 1898Atlantic Monthly Apr. 502/2 The lightning began to javelin the pines about the cottage. |