Definition of "pilum" []

• A Roman military javelin. (noun)

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• "The pilum is a stout wooden shaft 41 feet long, with an iron spit about three feet long fixed in it."
• "[*] The pilum was the Roman pike, and the spatha the short single-edged Roman sword."
• "His weapons were a javelin (pilum) and a short sword (gladius)."