Meanings
- alternativenot comparableAlternative spelling of javelined (“wielding or equipped with a javelin or javelins”).
Blow forth again the bright / Brave ghost of flame, a javelinned / Defiance to the crowding night.
1932 March, Ted Olson, “Against the Cold: Winter Night”, in Harriet Monroe, editor, Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, volume XXXIX, number VI, Chicago, Ill., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3042 more examples
Think of this, you jolly hog-hunters of India! Regret, when you next ride to pig, with a single spear in your hand, that you did not live in the past, when if you had gone after the same beast in armour, javelinned, and sworded, you might have been a hero.
1885 May, Phil[ip] Robinson, “Beasts of Chase”, in The Gentleman’s Magazine, volume CCLVIII, number 1853, London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, page 445In the center of the Carthaginian army was a front column of infantry with large rectangular shields and short swords, the second column was made up of battle-hardened Libyan spearmen, and then only the Cretan archers had been partially javelinned.
2016, Gabriel Daniels, chapter IXVI, in The Unparalleled Road of the Emperor, Google Play ID gUZaEQAAQBAJ
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of javelin
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