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jave⋅lin

  [jav-lin, jav-uh-]
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–noun
1. a light spear, usually thrown by hand.
2. Track.
a. a spearlike shaft about 8 1/2 ft. (2.7 m) long and usually made of wood, used in throwing for distance.
b. Also called javelin throw. a competitive field event in which the javelin is thrown for distance.
–verb (used with object)
3. to strike or pierce with or as if with a javelin.
Origin:
1505–15; < MF javeline, by suffix alter. from javelot, AF gavelot, gaveloc, prob. < OE gafeluc, *gafeloc ≪ British Celtic *gablākos presumably, a spear with a forklike head; cf. MIr gablach forked branch, javelin, MWelsh gaflach (appar. < OIr), deriv. of OIr gabul fork, forked branch, c. Old Breton gabl, Welsh gafl
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