javelin

1. (transitive) To pierce with a javelin.Examples: "Furrowing a giant oak, and javelining / With darted spikes and splinters of the wood"; "Eventually ostriches arrived and with arrows I shot them in the burning arena with arrows tipped with small bronze crescents Saw flies buzz at the array of javelinned lions Saw the looks on faces crookedly aghast when before them I hoisted a hacked off ostrich head and wagged my own and grinned"transitive

2. (transitive) To throw like a javelin.Examples: "He will have questions of all sorts javelined at him from the benches on both sides, from above the gangway and from below it."; "There is a thing no man may name; / It comes like beauty, goes like flame. / It haunts dim labyrinths of time / And enters every poet’s rhyme. / Its cry is heard upon the wind / When it is high and javelinned, / And on still nights its steps are heard, / Soft as the footfalls of a bird."; "The year the tornado swept through, it scattered the debris of two garages and their contents outward for hundreds of yards. An 8-foot 2-by-4 was javelinned through my bedroom wall; its blunt end stared at me just three feet short of my bed."transitive

3. (intransitive) To fall like a javelin.Examples: "For answer the ship righted as she rolled upon another great swell, leaned as far the other side, and crashed, bows first, into a cleft rock under water which held her as in a vise while her jib boom flew up in splinters, and her foretopgallant and royal mast, with yards and gear and sails, tore loose aloft and javelined down until brought up short by the involved rigging."; "The ants broke loose and attacked. In an attempt to beat them off, Ejeka lost grip of his whip which javelinned earthward."; "Jagged bolts of lightning javelined down from the sky, attempting to skewer him with their electrical touch."intransitive