Crossword clues for goatsfoot
The Collaborative International Dictionary
goatsfoot \goatsfoot\ n. A short-stemmed South African plant ( Oxalis caprina) with bluish flowers.
Syn: goat's foot, Oxalis caprina.
WordNet
n. short-stemmed South African plant with bluish flowers [syn: goat's foot, Oxalis caprina]
Usage examples of "goatsfoot".
Unfortunately, he knew from old lessons that there was no remedy for goatsfoot poisoning except time.
And the house that seemed to crouch between them had no lawn anymore, eitherjust a tangle of heat-blanched goatsfoot and crabgrass and a single incredibly stubborn patch of dusty, wilted pachysandra that had refused to die even though no one ever watered it now.
A Horse Stealer could use a goatsfoot to span a crossbow, or even an arbalest, which would have demanded a windlass of any human arm.
Bahzell sighed and rose to stretch, then slid his arbalest off his shoulder, hooked the curved end of the goatsfoot over the string, and heaved.
He hung the goatsfoot back on his belt and set a quarrel on the string, and Brandark gave him a crooked smile.
He never took his eyes from the accelerating horsemen, but the goatsfoot snapped into place by feel alone, and his arm jerked.
He took the time to return the goatsfoot to his belt before he set a quarrel on the string, but then the arbalest rose with snake-quick speed, the string snapped, and the bolt hummed wickedly as it tore through the head of a man-shaped target over fifty yards away.
As she watched from the corner of her eye, he slipped the iron goatsfoot from his belt and spanned the steel-bowed weapon one-handed.