OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 13013

javelin

/ˈd͡ʒæv.(ə.)lɪn/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
jabalina
A light spear thrown with the hand and used as a weapon.
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…
Flies the javelin swifter to its mark, / Launched by the vigour of a Roman arm?
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