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Answer for the clue "Pointy stone used in early Native American weaponry ", 9 letters:
arrowhead

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Arrowhead is the name that science fiction writer James Blish and his wife, literary agent and science fiction writer Virginia Kidd , gave to their home in Milford, Pennsylvania . The Virginia Kidd Literary Agency has been operating continuously at Arrowhead ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., from arrow + head (n.). Ancient ones dug up were called elf-arrows (17c.).

Usage examples of arrowhead.

Jasper assented, and Arrowhead and his wife, with whom resistance appeared to be out of the question, silently complied with the directions.

The Mori surviviors had come out of the forest to trade furs for arrowheads with the Danians, just as they had before the disaster.

The second arrow slid into the face of another orc, burying itself to the fletching in an eye socket as the arrowhead crashed through the back of its skull.

The tracks of these networks were just the highest ridges the shapers had built, and the pulses were tiny arrowheads, one and two steps higher.

A half-dozen deadly arrowheads later, Nylan set aside the hammer, let Sias bank the forge coals, and walked to the shaded stoop of the dwelling, from where Ayrlyn had waved-presumably to indicate she had something resembling a midday meal.

When the Coyote-god heard of this, he poisoned the arrowheads so any Washo who picked one up died.

But Karsus had coppersmiths and armorers fashion an arrowhead of copper sheets that measured three feet across.

Still in a small group, hesitantly, a step at a time, they moved forward down the length of the cavern, picking their way through the gallery of tall stalagmitic statues and stumbling over the daggerlike points of limestone that had broken off the ceiling and littered the floor like ancient arrowheads.

Among the graduates of the year were Miss Euthymia Tower and Miss Lurida Vincent, who had now returned to their homes in Arrowhead Village.

Not many suns had set before it was told all through Arrowhead Village that Maurice Kirkwood was the accepted lover of Euthymia Tower.

The arrowheads were barbless mild steel, honed to a needlepoint for penetration, and one of the guerrillas had stood off thirty paces and sunk one of these arrows twenty inches into the fleshy fibrous trunk of a baobab tree.

Both wasps are yellow and black, but the European ones are a lighter canary-yellow and the black bands tend to form little arrowhead shapes.

For the angels of temptation bore blades that slashed through armor and loosed arrowheads that treated iron bucklers as if they were rotten wood, and they raised a mighty stronghold called Westwind, anchored on Tower Black, that rivaled Freyja in power.

He looked up from the arrowhead he was fashioning and turned to the decrepit bowyer sitting next to him.

No bows in the world were as powerful as cataphract bows, few arrowheads as sharp, and none as heavy.