javelineer

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From Middle French javelinier.[1] By surface analysis, javelin +‎ -eer.

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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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  1. ^ “javelineer, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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