Also 6–7 -ier, -er. [a. obs. F. javelinier: see JAVELIN and -EER.]

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  1.  A soldier armed with a javelin.

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1600.  Holland, Livy, VIII. viii. The forefront of the vantgard, were iaveliniers called Hastati.

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a. 1656.  Ussher, Ann., VI. (1658), 208. Before this battalian thus ranged, there went six thousand slingers, and javeliners.

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1828.  [Sir G. C. Lewis], trans. Boeckh’s Publ. Econ. Athens, I. 356. When Demosthenes and Eurymedon arrived in Sicily they had 73 triremes, 5000 Hoplitæ, together with a number of Grecian and Barbarian javelineers, slingers, and bowmen.

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  2.  = JAVELIN-MAN 1.

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1879.  Browning, Ned Bratts, 64. Judges the prime of the land, Constables, javelineers.

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