Etymology

javelineer

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Today it means: A soldier who throws a javelin. Full definition →

Middle French javelinier
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  1. Middle French · borrowed fromjavelinier
  2. English todayjavelineer

From Middle French javelinier. By surface analysis, javelin + -eer.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.