javelineer

English

Etymology

javelin +‎ -eer

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)

Noun

javelineer (plural javelineers)

  1. 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.

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