Definition of Javelins

1. Noun. (plural of javelin) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Javelins

1. javelin [v] - See also: javelin

Lexicographical Neighbors of Javelins

javaps
javas
javazon
javazons
javel
javelin throw
javelina
javelinas
javelined
javelineer
javelineers
javelinier
javeliniers
javelining
javelins (current term)
javels
jaw
jaw-dropping
jaw-droppingly
jaw-jaw
jaw-jawed
jaw-jawing
jaw-jaws
jaw-winking phenomenon
jaw-winking syndrome
jaw-working reflex
jaw away
jaw bone

Literary usage of Javelins

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Diary of the American Revolution: From Newspapers and Original Documents by Frank Moore (1860)
"... as he lay on his death-bed, he called them around him, and giving to each of them a bundle of javelins, bade them try if they could break the bundles. ..."

2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"... slippery to such as advanced; their armour heavy, the waters deep ; nor could they wield, in that uneasy situation, their weighty javelins. ..."

3. The Æneid of Virgil by Virgil (1910)
"The fatal hour; the very heavens are dust; The horsemen charge, and in the midmost camp A rain of javelins pours. The dismal cry Of men in fierce fight, ..."

4. League of the Ho-dé-no-sau-nee Or Iroquois by Lewis Henry Morgan (1904)
"Chapter V National Games — Betting — Ball Game — Game of javelins — Game of Deer Buttons — Snow Snake Game — Snow Boat Game — Archery — Peach-Stone Game ..."

5. History of Ancient Egypt by George Rawlinson (1881)
"Sometimes they had to meet a chariot force, when the charioteers charged at speed, shooting their arrows as they ad- Jin rT Egyptian javelins, vanced, ..."

6. The Grecian History: From the Earliest State to the Death of Alexander the Great by Oliver Goldsmith (1828)
"... to shoot their arrows, or fling their javelins and stones at the enemy, and then retire through the intervals behind the ranks, to dart out occasionally ..."

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