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peccaryor javelin) Collared peccary (Tayassu tajacu). (credit: Jen and Des Bartlett—Bruce Coleman Inc.) javelin 1. a long pointed spear thrown as a weapon or in competitive field events 2. the javelin the event or sport of throwing the javelin How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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For in their succorless emptyhandedness, they, in the heathenish sharked waters, and by the beaches of unrecorded, javelin islands, battled with virgin wonders and terrors that Cooke with all his marines and muskets would not willingly have dared. I was among the wounded, having been struck by a javelin, or spear, while I was passing from one tent to another. When he halted before the binnacle, with his glance fastened on the pointed needle in the compass, that glance shot like a javelin with the pointed intensity of his purpose; and when resuming his walk he again paused before the mainmast, then, as the same riveted glance fastened upon the riveted gold coin there, he still wore the same aspect of nailed firmness, only dashed with a certain wild longing, if not hopefulness. |
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