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javelined

javelined adjective: wielding or equipped with a javelin or javelins. Also the simple past and past participle of javelin.

Adjective

javelined (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Wielding or equipped with a javelin or javelins.
    • The diamond sun upon thy purple breast / Compares not with the light of my own North / Flashing from ice and snow and javelined men.1875, Sigismund Krasinski [i.e., Zygmunt Krasiński], translated by Martha Walker Cook, “Iridion”, in The Undivine Comedy, and Other Poems, Philadelphia, Pa.: J. B. Lippincott & Co., →OCLC, act II...
    • 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, javelined, and sworded, you might have been a hero.1885, Phil Robinson, “Beasts of Chase”, in The Poets’ Beasts: A Sequel to “The Poets’ Birds”, London: Chatto and Windus, […], →OCLC, page 209

Also used as

javelined is also the simple past and past participle of javelin.

Forms of javelined

alternative formjavelinned

Origin of javelined

From javelin + -ed.

Questions about javelined

What does javelined mean?
Javelined means wielding or equipped with a javelin or javelins.
What part of speech is javelined?
Javelined is an adjective.

Words near javelined in the dictionary

  1. javelin thrower
  2. javelin throwers
  3. javelin throws
  4. javelina
  5. javelinas
  6. javelined
  7. javelineer
  8. javelineers
  9. javelinfish
  10. javelinfishes
  11. javelinier

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