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javelineers

javelineers is the plural of javelineer.

Meaning of javelineer

Noun

javelineer (plural javelineers)

  1. A soldier who throws a javelin.
    • As it now is, the enemy outshoot and outsling us so far that the Cretan archers and our javelineers cannot reach them.1851, Henry William Herbert, The Captains of the Old World, page 34

Questions about javelineers

What is javelineers the plural of?
Javelineers is the plural of javelineer.

Words near javelineers in the dictionary

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

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