javelin

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A light spear thrown with the hand and used as a weapon.

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

2. isim A metal-tipped spear thrown for distance in an athletic field event.

   “I managed to medal in the javelin throw.”

3. isim A javelinfish (Coelorinchus australis).
4. fiil To pierce with a javelin.

   “Furrowing a giant oak, and javelining / With darted spikes and splinters of the wood”

5. fiil 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.”

6. fiil To fall like a javelin.

   “The ants broke loose and attacked. In an attempt to beat them off, Ejeka lost grip of his whip which javelinned earthward.”