Difference between Javelin and Spear

Javelin

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A light spear thrown with the hand and used as a weapon A metal-tipped spear thrown for distance in an athletic field event

Spear

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A long stick with a sharp tip used as a weapon for throwing or thrusting, or anything used to make a thrusting motion.A sharp tool used by fishermen to retrieve fish.an illegal maneuver using the end of a hockey stick to strike into another hockey player

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To penetrate or strike with, or as if with, any long narrow object. To make a thrusting motion that catches an object on the tip of a long device.

Example sentence: Shawn Spears, he is a scumbag. He decided, after years of friendship with one of the greatest men to ever live Cody Rhodes, to waffle him with a chair. No one should be laying a finger on that man, he is a saint.