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(uncountable) The practice or sport of shooting arrows with a bow.
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A limb, or locomotive or prehensile organ, of an invertebrate animal.
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Alternative form of armorist [(heraldry) A person skilled in the bearings of coats of arms, and all relating to their emblazonment.]
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(archaic) The axle of a wheel.
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(historical) A narrow opening, often cruciform, through which arrows can be fired.
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Alternative form of bandoleer
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A long pole with a spike at the end, used in climbing mountains; an alpenstock.
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Any round object attached loosely to a flexible line, a rod, a body part etc., so that it may swing when hanging from it.
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A type of long thin arrowhead.
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(archery) A target block, made of foam but historically made of hay bales, to which a target face is attached.
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A weapon made of a curved piece of wood or other flexible material whose ends are connected by a string, used for shooting arrows.
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A weapon consisting of a bow and a supply of arrows, often kept in a quiver.
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A deep formal bow with right leg drawn back touching the ground.
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(music, lutherie) The small section of a stringed instrument's bow near the heel having grippy material such as goatskin leather or snakeskin wrapped tightly around the bow stick between the lapping and the frog, so as to facilitate it being held and to protect the stick.
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One who manufactures bows for use with bowed stringed instruments.
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(engineering) A spring in the shape of a bow.
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One who plays any of several bow instruments, such as the musical bow or diddley bow.
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(obsolete, falconry) A bower, or young hawk.
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Alternative form of bow maker [One who manufactures bows for use in archery.]
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(archery) A man who uses a bow; an archer.
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The stave of a bow, to which the string is attached.
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The string of an archer's bow.
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(archery) A device for stringing a bow.
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A person who makes or sells bows (for use with arrows).
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(bowhunting) A flat arrowhead with razor-sharp sides, intended to kill prey by causing severe bleeding.
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Attachment to the butt of a rifle that fits around the shoulder of the shooter.
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(archery) a bow made from horn, wood, and sinew laminated together.
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a modern bow that uses pulleys and cables to help with the drawing and releasing of the bowstring
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(obsolete) A crossbowman.
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Someone (usually a soldier) equipped with a crossbow.
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Alternative spelling of dicky bow [(Britain, informal) A ready tied or elasticated bowtie.]
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(Britain, informal) A ready tied or elasticated bowtie.
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(military, historical) A short musket hooked to a swivel attached to a soldier's belt; so called from a representation of a dragon's head at the muzzle.
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(military) A band of soft metal near the base of an artillery shell which is forced into engagement with the gun's rifling upon firing, allowing the rifling to spin up the shell and providing a gastight seal around the base of the shell.
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A Roman symbol of judicial authority consisting of a bundle of wooden sticks, with an axe blade embedded in the centre; used also as a symbol of fascism.
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A bow used to play the fiddle.
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(archery) a bow with non-recurved, flat, relatively wide limbs that are approximately rectangular in cross-section.
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(US, Native American culture) A large talisman consisting of an arch of woven twigs with flax cord and beads suspended beneath it.
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Generally, a manufacturer of bows and arrows.
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A bow whose arc is kept in place by the archer's feet when its string is drawn by hand.
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(rare, science fiction, video games, weaponry, fantasy) A giant bow; a longbow.
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(military) A shield fitted to the front of a gun to protect its operator.
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(firearms) The back, upper part of the stock.
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(military) In ordnance, a strengthening band surrounding and reinforcing the tube in which the charge is fired.
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(archery) A button on a bowstring that indicates consistent height when drawing a bow, for example by being placed against the archer's mouth .
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(military) A portable defensive barrier consisting of a frame covered in barbed wire.
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(fencing, countable) The electrically conductive jacket worn by foil and sabre fencers.
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A long thin strip of metal (usually either two or four) extending from the head of a staff weapon (such as a halberd) down a certain length of the wooden shaft, secured with nails or screws and designed to prevent splitting or breakage of the wood.
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(music, lutherie, bowmaking) Lengths of fine wire, silver, gold, silk or whalebone wrapped tightly around the bow stick adjacent to the leather part of the bow grip at the heel of the bow.
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(archery) The part of the bow, from the handle to the tip.
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A large bow that has a strong tension, and is usually more than 3 feet tall. The most famous longbows in history were the English longbows, which were crafted of yew.
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An archer who uses a longbow.
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A manufacturer of strings for longbows.
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(archery) The primary shaft of an arrow into which the foreshaft containing the arrowhead is inserted.
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A small, typically rectangular plate on the neck of a guitar (or bass, etc) through which screws are threaded to attach the neck to the body.
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Alternative form of Nine Bows [(Egyptology) The traditional enemies of Ancient Egypt.]
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A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.
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(weaponry) A bow whose two tips curve away from the archer when drawn, which gives the shot greater power and speed.
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Alternative form of ribauldequin [An engine of war used in the Middle Ages, consisting of a protected elevated staging on wheels, and armed in front with pikes. After the 14th century it was furnished with small cannon.]
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(archery) The main body of a bow.
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Alternative form of selfbow [(archery) A bow that is made from a single piece of wood (often referred to as a bow stave).]
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(archery) A bow that is made from a single piece of wood (often referred to as a bow stave).
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A small bow that has a strong tension, and is usually about a meter tall.
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A type of man-portable one-person crossbow, which throws rocks (or similar projectiles) instead of bolts (“arrows”). Sometimes used as a hunting bow.
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(historical) A kind of crossbow used for shooting stones.
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(idiomatic) A skill, ability or resource.
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The enlarged end of a connecting rod, to which the strap is fastened.
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a dart in the form of arrow with an extra notch with which it is thrown using a string
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The part of a sword blade to which the handle is fastened.
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A part of a sword close to the hilt.
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(archaic) A small shield.
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A bow (weapon that shoots arrows) used in combat.
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(archaic) A grappling iron used to bend a crossbow.
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Abbreviation of crossbow. [A mechanised weapon, based on the bow and arrow, that shoots bolts.]
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A bow for archery, made of yew wood.
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(archery) six dozen, four dozen, and two dozen arrows shot at each of three distances
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