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"Track and field throw"2 answers
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Filled answer is this word (JAVELIN).
Definitions
a spear thrown as a weapon or in competitive field events
Word origin
From Middle English chafeveleyn, gavelong, from Old French javelline, diminutive of javelot, diminutive of *javel, from Vulgar Latin *gabalus, from Gaulish gabulum (compare Old Irish gabul (“fork”), Welsh gafl), from Proto-Celtic *gablā (“fork, forked branch”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeh₁bʰ-. The Old French term was also borrowed into Middle Low German as gaveline, and into Middle High German as gabilot. Cognate with gavelock, gaffle.
Used in a sentence
“Flies the javelin swifter to its mark, / Launched by the vigour of a Roman arm?”
“With what apprehensions we proceeded, ignorant at what moment we might be greeted by the javelin of some ambushed savage!”
Typee“Searching through snow / For the javelin I had not / Meant to throw right at you / For if it had hit its mark / There’d be blood in the place / Where you stood”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Track and field throw”7 letters
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