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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
javelin .
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Examples
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Two hundred yards away, a mangled Give Way sign, salvaged from a losing argument with a Caterpillar B797 on one of the service roads - B797s won most arguments they entered into - had been javelined into the churned earth as a makeshift pin.
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Another arm javelined from its place like a flying snake, clicked at the end of another, became a hundred-foot chain which swirled like a flail through the huddling mass.
The Metal Monster 2004
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He javelined a bench down the hall and knew he had caught someone when he heard a curse.
Wolves Eat Dogs Smith, Martin Cruz, 1942- 2004
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I saw my companions; the brave fellows lay dead where they had slept, javelined to death without a chance at self-defense.
Pellucidar Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912
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If it was the fibreglass section, that would potentially shatter, with shards going at the same speed, and / or the shattered handle being javelined across the room.
Stu's Shed 2009
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If it was the fibreglass section, that would potentially shatter, with shards going at the same speed, and/or the shattered handle being javelined across the room.
Stu's Shed 2009
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Plus, you may also notice that the lace looks decent, which is the direct result of me reknitting the bottom third of the leg after I javelined the project and each of its needles across the room in frustration.
Finny Knits 2008
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A thousand years from this night some wronged mother of hers, sitting beside some sleeping father of hers in their forest-beleaguered castle -- the moonlight streaming in upon him through the javelined casement and putting before her the manly beauty of him -- the blond hair matted thick on his forehead as his helmet had left it, his mouth reddening in his slumber under its curling gold -- some mother of hers whom he had carried off from other men by might of his sword, thus sitting beside him and knowing him to be colder to her now than the moon's dead rays, might have watched those rays as they travelled away from his figure and put a gleam on his sword hanging near: a thousand years ago: some mother of hers.
Bride of the Mistletoe James Lane Allen 1887
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