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Arrows

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ar·row  (r)
n.
1. A missile having a straight thin shaft with a pointed head at one end and often flight-stabilizing vanes at the other, meant to be shot from a bow.
2. Something, such as a directional symbol, that is similar to an arrow in form or function.
intr.v. arrowed, arrow·ing, arrows
To move like an arrow.
[Middle English arwe, from Old English.]
Arrows
See also weaponry.

arbalist, arbalest
a crossbowman. Also arcubalist.
belomancy
A form of divination in which marks or words are placed on arrows which are then drawn from a quiver at random.
sagittary
1. pertaining to archery.
2. resembling an arrow; sagittate.
sagittate
shaped like an arrowhead, especially plant leaves shaped like elongated triangles.
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If you get well enough to make me one, Tal, and some arrows to go with it, I'd like it for a curiosity to hang in my room at home.
Tom Swift In The Land Of Wonders by Appleton, Victor View in context
Past the veranda they raced, pouring a deadly fire into the kneeling Waziri who discharged their volley of arrows from behind their long, oval shields--shields well adapted, perhaps, to stop a hostile arrow, or deflect a spear; but futile, quite, before the leaden missiles of the riflemen.
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
He could kill him at his leisure later, when the bow and deadly arrows were laid aside.
Tarzan of the Apes by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
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