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"ref": "1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Numbers 25:7–8:",
"text": "And when Phinehas the sonne of Eleazar, the sonne of Aaron the Priest saw it, hee rose vp from amongst the Congregation, and tooke a iauelin in his hand. And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them thorow, the man of Israel, and the woman, thorow her belly: So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.",
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"ref": "1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 1:",
"text": "Flies the javelin swifter to its mark, / Launched by the vigour of a Roman arm?",
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"ref": "1846 February, Henry Melville, chapter X, in Typee […] : A Peep at Polynesian Life, London: John Murray, page 73:",
"text": "With what apprehensions we proceeded, ignorant at what moment we might be greeted by the javelin of some ambushed savage!",
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"ref": "1898, Homer, “Book XII”, in Samuel Butler, transl., The Iliad of Homer: Rendered into English Prose for the use of those who cannot read the original, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., page 189:",
"text": "As a lion or wild boar turns fiercely on the dogs and men that attack him, while these form a solid wall and shower their javelins as they face him—his courage is all undaunted, but his high spirit will be the death of him;[…]",
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"ref": "2023, Sufjan Stevens, “Javelin (To Have and To Hold)”, in Javelin:",
"text": "Searching through snow / For the javelin I had not / Meant to throw right at you / For if it had hit its mark / There’d be blood in the place / Where you stood",
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"sense": "spear used as a weapon",
"word": "ოროლი"
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"sense": "spear used as a weapon",
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"word": "כידון"
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"word": "javelino"
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"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "spear used as a weapon",
"word": "lembing"
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"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "spear used as a weapon",
"word": "giavellotto"
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"sense": "spear used as a weapon",
"word": "投げ槍"
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"sense": "spear used as a weapon",
"word": "pīlum"
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"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "spear used as a weapon",
"word": "verūtum"
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"sense": "spear used as a weapon",
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"word": "šķēps"
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"_dis1": "83 17 0",
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "spear used as a weapon",
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"word": "akstis"
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"roman": "džilit",
"sense": "spear used as a weapon",
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"word": "џилит"
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"sense": "spear used as a weapon",
"word": "lembing"
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"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "spear used as a weapon",
"word": "mākoi"
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"sense": "spear used as a weapon",
"word": "tārerarera"
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"_dis1": "83 17 0",
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "spear used as a weapon",
"word": "launce"
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"lang": "Middle English",
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"word": "dart"
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"_dis1": "83 17 0",
"code": "mnw",
"lang": "Mon",
"sense": "spear used as a weapon",
"word": "ၜုန်ဇၞိက်"
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"sense": "spear used as a weapon",
"word": "သၞာ်သၟတ်"
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"_dis1": "83 17 0",
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"sense": "spear used as a weapon",
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"word": "javelot"
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"word": "satti"
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"sense": "spear used as a weapon",
"word": "زوبین"
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"word": "نیزه"
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"_dis1": "83 17 0",
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"lang": "Persian",
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"sense": "spear used as a weapon",
"word": "خشت"
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"sense": "spear used as a weapon",
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"word": "Spiess"
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"_dis1": "83 17 0",
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"sense": "spear used as a weapon",
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"sense": "spear used as a weapon",
"word": "dardo"
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"sense": "spear used as a weapon",
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"word": "дро́тик"
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"sense": "spear used as a weapon",
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"word": "копьё"
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"_dis1": "83 17 0",
"code": "sa",
"lang": "Sanskrit",
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"sense": "spear used as a weapon",
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"word": "शल्य"
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"sense": "spear used as a weapon",
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"word": "oštep"
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"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "spear used as a weapon",
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"_dis1": "83 17 0",
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"sense": "spear used as a weapon",
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"word": "jabalina"
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"_dis1": "83 17 0",
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"word": "kastspjut"
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"_dis1": "83 17 0",
"code": "tl",
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"sense": "spear used as a weapon",
"word": "balibabat"
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"sense": "spear used as a weapon",
"word": "habalina"
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"word": "зӯпин"
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"sense": "spear used as a weapon",
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"sense": "spear used as a weapon",
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"sense": "spear used as a weapon",
"word": "kargı"
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"lang": "Ugaritic",
"roman": "šlḥ",
"sense": "spear used as a weapon",
"word": "𐎌𐎍𐎈"
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"word": "نیزَہ"
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},
{
"rhymes": "-ævlɪn"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"javelin"
],
"word": "javelin"
}
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