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broad arrow

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broad arrow
n.
1. An arrow with a wide barbed head.
2. Chiefly British A wide arrowhead mark identifying government property.
broad arrow
n
1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a mark shaped like a broad arrowhead designating British government property and formerly used on prison clothing
2. (Individual Sports & Recreations / Archery) an arrow with a broad head
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Noun1.broad arrow - an arrowhead mark identifying British government property
marking, mark, marker - a distinguishing symbol; "the owner's mark was on all the sheep"
2.broad arrow - a mark shaped like an arrowhead; used to mark convicts' clothing
mark - a written or printed symbol (as for punctuation); "his answer was just a punctuation mark"
3.broad arrow - an arrow with a wide barbed head
arrow - a projectile with a straight thin shaft and an arrowhead on one end and stabilizing vanes on the other; intended to be shot from a bow


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Give me a good stout bow and a fair broad arrow, and if I hit it not, strip me and beat me blue with bowstrings.
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