An atlatl is a stick with a notch or a strap at one end and a grip at the other used for throwing a spear or arrow. From the Nahuatl (Aztec) word atla 'to throw'.

Latin hasta 'spear, lance, pike, javelin' also 'A spear stuck in the ground at public auctions or where the tribunals of the centumviri were held.' The centumviri (literally, 100 men') were a kind of civil court. :- Cf. hastavibrans is Latin for Shakespeare.

Latin lancea 'a light spear, with a leather thong fastened to the middle of it, a lance, spear'.

Latin pilum 'a pounder, pestle in a mortar; the heavy javelin of the Roman infantry'. From *pis-lum, cf. piso, pisno, pisto 'to pound'.

Latin telum 'a weapon used for fighting at a distance; a missile weapon, missile, as a dart, spear, javelin'. From *texlum, cf. texo 'to weave' (whence English text) and toxon 'bow'.

Latin spiculum 'a little sharp point or sting'. Fr. spica 'a point; ear, spike (of wheat)'.

Latin jaculum 'a dart, javelin'. From jaculus 'that which is thrown' fr. jacio 'to throw'.

Latin glans (glandis) ' any acorn-shaped fruit, beechnut, chestnut; an acorn-shaped ball of lead or clay which was hurled at the enemy; the glans penis'.