Ant. [L.; presumably a Teut. word.] A kind of javelin used by the ancient Germans (see quot.). By modern archæologists the word has been applied to a particular type of lance found in ancient German tombs, etc., and also to a form of socketed stone celt.
1598. Grenewey, Tacitus’ Germany, i. (1622), 259. [They] carry Iauelines, or as they term them Frameas, with a narrow and short iron, but so sharpe and handsome, that, as the occasion serveth, with the same weapon they can fight both at hand, and afarre off.
