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A person who is expert in the use of a bow and arrow
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archer
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Archer (1856–1872) was an Australian Thoroughbred racehorse who won the first and the second Melbourne Cups in 1861 and 1862. He won both Cups easily, and is one of only five horses to win the Melbourne Cup twice or more; he is one of only four horses to ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 13c., from Anglo-French archer , Old French archier "archer, bowmaker," from Latin arcarius , from arcus "bow" (see arc ). Also a 17c. name for the bishop in chess.
Usage examples of archer.
When Archer turned, Tucker was watching the vent port with an accusatory glower.
The arms, horses, and camels, with an immense treasure of gold, silver, silk, and precious stones, were all delivered to the conqueror, who, leaving only a garrison of six hundred archers, returned to Emesa, and employed some time in the distribution of rewards and punishments at the end of so memorable a war, which restored to the obedience of Rome those provinces that had renounced their allegiance since the captivity of Valerian.
A priest of Assot, God of Music and Prophecy, had long ago declared that the Empire would endure until The Archer turned his bow.
And they lamented when, after the Autumnal Equinox, the malign influence of the venomous Scorpion, and vindictive Archer, and the filthy and ill-omened He-Goat dragged him down toward the Winter Solstice.
Despite the devastating barrage concentrated against the men of the Border Legion by the lines of Gnome archers below the bluff, the valiant defenders managed to cut away at the Trolls that manned the great battering ram before the weakened gates.
Brush had grown back even farther since his last visit, cover for archers in easy bowshot of the walls.
Turanian tide receded somewhat farther, not quite out of bowshot but far enough so that the archers above ceased shooting.
The archers were a hundred paces ahead of Mad Bear when they came within bowshot of the wagons.
She could read and write Latin and do grand needlework, yet proved to be a skillful archer with the small crossbow, and a horsewoman of their equal.
The Royal Company of Archers would have need of a good markswoman, would they not?
One of the Royal Archers, an outstanding markswoman, slew three of the shotmen attending the mangonels with swift arrows from her longbow.
If the body language of a mollusk was anything Archer could trust, he got the idea the alien was all done talking.
Neither he nor his son Archer knew of the shunned house as other than a nuisance almost impossible to rent-- perhaps on account of the mustiness and sickly odour of unkempt old age.
Philoctetes alone outshot me there at Troy when ranks of Achaean archers bent their bows.
The way it fluoresced showed that the palmette border was original, but the Scythian archers had been added using a different glaze or paint.