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单词 javelin
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javelinn.

Brit. /ˈdʒav(ə)lɪn/, U.S. /ˈdʒæv(ə)lən/
Forms: Also 1500s iavelyn(e, -ynge, -inge, -en, Scottish ievilling, ( geweling, iaivelin), 1500s–1600s iaveling, iaveline, 1600s javlin.
Etymology: < French javeline (15th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter); from the radical javel- , found also in javelot n.
1.
a. A light spear thrown with the hand with or without the help of a thong; a dart.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > spear or lance > [noun] > specific for throwing
gavelockc1000
wifleOE
dartc1330
gavelot14..
pilec1400
hurlbatc1450
javelot1489
espiot1490
javelin1513
archegay1523
framea1545
zagaie1590
bourdonasse1596
assegai1600
1513 [see javelin-spear n. at Compounds 1].
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 233/2 Iavelyn a speare, jauelot.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Sam. xix. 10 Saul..had a iauelynge in his hande... And Saul thought with the iauelinge to sticke Dauid fast to the wall.
1593 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis sig. Ev With iauelings point a churlish swine to goare. View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 658 Others from the Wall defend With Dart and Jav'lin . View more context for this quotation
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 227 When the hunters approach him [sc. the lion], they either shoot or throw their javelins.
1869 C. Boutell tr. J. P. Lacombe Arms & Armour i. 2 The arrow—either discharged from the bow or thrown as a javelin from the hand.
b. Heraldry. A charge consisting of a short spear with a barbed head.
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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > representations of weapons or armour > [noun] > javelin
javelin1866
1866 J. E. Cussans Gram. Heraldry 43 When a simple spear is intended, it must be described as a javelin.
c. As rendering of Latin jaculus, a serpent that darts on its prey; cf. dart n. 4. Obsolete. rare.
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1718 N. Rowe tr. Lucan Pharsalia ix Fierce from afar a darting javelin shot, For such, the serpent's name has Afric taught.
d. figurative.
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1850 E. B. Browning Island v Where the grey rocks strike Their javelins up the azure.
1856 S. Warner Hills of Shatemuc 242 The speaker was a well dressed and easy mannered man of the world, but with a very javelin of an eye.
1867 J. G. Whittier 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. Obsolete.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > pike > [noun]
staff-swordc1000
pike1487
pick1515
javelin1520
peak1543
1520 in W. Jerdan Rutland Papers (1842) 43 And lx of his [sc. the king's] gard on horsbacke, with javelyns.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. ccxxxvv Euery man hauyng a iauelyn or slaughsword to keepe the people in aray.
1576 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1848) II. 27 Ane halberd, dence aiks, or geweling.
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Javeline, a weapon of a size between the Pike and Partisan.
a1839 W. M. Praed 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 n. 1.
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society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > an officer of the court > [noun] > attendant on judge or magistrate
lictorc1384
porter1607
javelin-man1705
judge's marshal1830
javelin1849
javelineer1879
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 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: apparently the pilchard or anchovy (both caught in immense numbers at Venice, and preserved for exportation). Obsolete. rare.
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > order Clupeiformes > [noun] > family Engraulidae > engraulis encrasicholus (anchovy)
anchovy1582
javelin1655
sea-minnow1672
spearing1884
the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > order Clupeiformes > [noun] > family Clupeidae and herrings > clupea pilchardus (pilchard)
pilchard1407
javelin1655
gypsy herring1803
French sardine1847
1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. xviii. 154 Javelings or Sea-darts are plentiful in the Venecian gulf and all the Adriatique Sea.

Compounds

C1. attributive and in other combinations.
javelin-bearer n.
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1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Iauelyn bearer, lancearius.
javelin-head n.
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1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Iauelyn head, sicilites.
javelin-spear n.
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1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xii. iv. 14 The braid hed brangland on the ievilling speyr.
javelin-darting adj.
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1813 Ld. Byron Bride Abydos i. ix. 250 Nor marked the javelin-darting crowd.
javelin-proof adj.
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1866 J. Conington tr. Virgil Æneid ii. 664 Screened by a pent house javelin-proof.
C2.
javelin-bat n. a South American vampire, Phyllostoma hastatum.
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the world > animals > mammals > order Chiroptera or bat > [noun] > suborder Microchiroptera > family Desmodontidae (vampire bat)
vampire1774
spectre-bat1781
vampire bat1790
flying-dog1796
javelin-bat1861
1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. ii. iv. i. 212 It has been asserted that..the Vampire and the Javelin Bat..could destroy a man by sucking his blood.
javelin-fish n. a species of hæmulonid fish ( Pomodasys hasta) (Funk).
javelin-snake n. a snake-like lizard of the genus Acontias = dart-snake n. at dart n. Compounds 2; also applied to various species of Bothrops, an American genus of Crotalidæ or rattlesnakes.
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the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Lacertilia (lizards) > [noun] > family Scincidae > member of genus Acontias (dart-snake)
dart1591
darter1608
dart-serpent1608
arrow snake1611
dart-snake1694
shoot-serpent1731
javelin-snake1835
the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Viperidae (vipers) > subfamily Crotalinae > genus Trimeresurus > fer-de-lance
labaria1825
javelin-snake1835
rat-tailed snake1854
lance-head1859
fer-de-lance1880
lance-snake1880
1835 Penny Cycl. IV. 529/1 These bones are absent in the fourth subgenus, Acontias (Javelin-Snake) of Cuvier.
1847 W. B. Carpenter Zool.: Systematic Acct. I. §502 The Acontias, or Javelin Snake, of Southern Africa, is nearly allied to our Slow-worm.
1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. ii. v. i. 257 The most formidable species is the Javelin Snake properly so called, or Yellow Viper of Martinique (Bothrops Lanceolatus).
javelin-throwing n. the throwing of a javelin as an athletic field event; also elliptical as javelin.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > athletics > [noun] > specific athletic sports other than running > throwing javelin
javelin-throwing1902
1902 Daily Chron. 7 Apr. 3/1 Professors in a university to teach javelin-throwing.
1906 Westm. Gaz. 3 May 10/2 Very pretty was the javelin-throwing, the long thin spear being launched high into the air.
1958 Times 20 Aug. 2/6 Mrs. Zatopkova..won the women's javelin with a new European record of 183 ft. 9½ in.
1964 J. J. Walsh Understanding Paraplegia xix. 128 Throwing and catching a medicine ball, javelin-throwing, and shot-putting, were all of use.
1974 Country Life 14 Feb. 292/1 The big breakthrough..came from young Charles Clover in the javelin as he threw 278 ft 7¼ in.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

javelinv.

Brit. /ˈdʒav(ə)lɪn/, U.S. /ˈdʒæv(ə)lən/
Etymology: < javelin n.
transitive. To strike or pierce with or as with a javelin.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > making holes or becoming holed > make (an opening or hole) [verb (transitive)] > make an opening or hole in or into > bore, pierce, or perforate > with something sharp-pointed
shearOE
sting993
stickOE
spita1225
wound?c1225
stitchc1230
pitcha1275
threstc1275
forprick1297
steekc1300
piercec1325
rivec1330
dag?a1400
jag?a1400
lancec1400
pickc1400
tamec1400
forpierce1413
punch1440
launch1460
thringc1485
empiercec1487
to-pierce1488
joba1500
ding1529
stob?1530
probe1542
enthrill1563
inthirlc1580
cloy1590
burt1597
pink1597
lancinate1603
perterebrate1623
puncture1675
spike1687
skiver1832
bepierce1840
gimlet1841
prong1848
javelin1859
1859 Ld. Tennyson Vivien in Idylls of King 142 Out of heaven a bolt..struck, Furrowing a giant oak, and javelining With darted spikes and splinters of the wood The dark earth round.
1898 Atlantic Monthly Apr. 502/2 The lightning began to javelin the pines about the cottage.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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