Definitions

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  • noun The heavy barbed javelin of the Franks.

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  • noun a type of javelin with a barbed tip used by the Franks and the various Germanic tribes in the Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages

Etymologies

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From Byzantine Greek prong, hook (ángōn); ultimately from Germanic origins.

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