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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 [ˈærəʊz]
n
(Group Games / Games, other than specified) (functioning as singular) Brit an informal name for darts

Arrows
See also weaponry.

a crossbowman. Also arcubalist.
A form of divination in which marks or words are placed on arrows which are then drawn from a quiver at random.
1. pertaining to archery.
2. resembling an arrow; 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.
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.
He could kill him at his leisure later, when the bow and deadly arrows were laid aside.
 
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