javelineer
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle French javelinier.[1] By surface analysis, javelin + -eer.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Noun[edit]
javelineer (plural javelineers)
- A soldier who throws a javelin.
- 1851, Henry William Herbert, The Captains of the Old World, page 34:
- As it now is, the enemy outshoot and outsling us so far that the Cretan archers and our javelineers cannot reach them.
Translations[edit]
soldier who throws a javelin
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References[edit]
- ^ “javelineer, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.