javelineer
(dʒæv(ə)lɪˈnɪə(r))
Also 6–7 -ier, -er.
[a. obs. F. javelinier: see javelin and -eer1.]
1. A soldier armed with a javelin.
| 1600 Holland Livy viii. viii, The forefront of the vantgard, were iaveliniers called Hastati. a 1656 Ussher Ann. vi. (1658) 208 Before this battalian..there went six thousand slingers, and javeliners. 1828 Lewis tr. Boeckh's Pub. Econ. Athens (1842) 267 Grecian and Barbarian javelineers. |
2. = javelin-man 1.
| 1879 Browning Ned Bratts 64 Judges the prime of the land, Constables, javelineers. |