javelinning
javelinning is the present participle and gerund of javelin.
Meaning of javelin
Verb
javelin (third-person singular simple present javelins, present participle javelining or javelinning, simple past and past participle javelined or javelinned)
- To pierce with a javelin.
- Furrowing a giant oak, and javelining / With darted spikes and splinters of the wood1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Vivien”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 142
- To throw like a javelin.
- He will have questions of all sorts javelined at him from the benches on both sides, from above the gangway and from below it.1926, “The Exchequer”, in Aids to the Study of European Governments: Brief Readings, Reprints of Constitutions, Chronologies, Diagrams, Questions, and Topics for Special Study (with References)...
- To fall like a javelin.
- For answer the ship righted as she rolled upon another great swell, leaned as far the other side, and crashed, bows first, into a cleft rock under water which held her as in a vise while her jib boom flew up in splinters, and her foretopgallant and royal mast, with yards and gear and sails, tore...1922 October 7, Captain [Aylward Edward] Dingle, “Ocean Magic”, in The Saturday Evening Post, volume 195, number 15, Philadelphia, Pa.: The Curtis Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 72
Questions about javelinning
- What is javelinning the present participle and gerund of?
- Javelinning is the present participle and gerund of javelin.
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