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javelin

[jav-lin, jav-uh-] / ˈdʒæv lɪn, ˈdʒæv ə- /
NOUN
spear
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The Venezuelans practically turned the art of the bat flip into a javelin toss.

From The Wall Street Journal

It’s like golf, except a player can’t javelin his clubs into a water hazard or pitch a 15-pound orb across six alleys, even if he could.

From The Wall Street Journal

There was a lion’s roar from the sky, and something like a thin javelin shot past Christopher and stuck into the side of the boat.

From Literature

Yamamoto picked up his javelins and carried them back to the clubhouse.

From Los Angeles Times

Brits was a world champion javelin thrower in her youth before a road accident curtailed that career.

From BBC