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Shooting with bows and arrows
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archery
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Word definitions for archery in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Archery is the sport, practice or skill of using a bow to propel arrows . The word comes from the Latin arcus . Historically, archery has been used for hunting and combat. In modern times, it is mainly a competitive sport and recreational activity. A person ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, from Anglo-French archerye , Old French archerie , from archier "archer" (see archer ).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The practice or sport of shooting arrows with a bow. 2 (context countable English) A group of archers.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Archery \Arch"er*y\, n. [OE. archerie.] The use of the bow and arrows in battle, hunting, etc.; the art, practice, or skill of shooting with a bow and arrows. Archers, or bowmen, collectively. Let all our archery fall off In wings of shot a-both sides of ...
Usage examples of archery.
Sternberg, by an insidious pedagogical Mesmer of an archery coach, from an ambivalent parental Catholicism to Trinitarianism, known also as Mathurinism or Redemptionism.
There was lawn bowling, battledore and shuttlecock, archery, and even target shooting.
Near Maidenpool, she recalled, the Brave Companions had strung a septon up by his heels from the limb of a tree and used his corpse for archery practice.
Angarak atrocities, their archery improved to the point that no place in the horde was truly safe from Asturian arrows, and Kal Torak of Mallorea took horrid casualties as he marched west toward Vo Mimbre.
She informed me that she had practised archery as a hobby, and the effects of the sport were visible in a somewhat enlarged brachialis of the right arm and a firmness of the extensor and flexor muscles.
Clovis also insisted on setting aside an hour after they pitched camp to work with Castile on her archery, which improved dramatically.
It was a source of distress to Prestimion that the good-hearted, ever-cheerful Kamba, that supreme master of archery, was not here to take part in this contest today.
Count Iram, and good Earl Kamba of Mazadone, who had taught the art of archery to him, and Vimnad Gezelstad, among many another.
Skating races, sled races-an archery contest-could we somehow adapt stickball to snow or ice?
Though heavily outnumbered, they had held the enemy close under the tower walls, where the Andressat archery could do its worst, until the rest of the Clarts and the Phelani arrived in force.
At Devlen the pels stood just back of the open and covered tilting courts and the archery ranges, and thither those lads not upon household duty were marched every morning excepting Fridays and Sundays, and were there exercised under the direction of Sir James Lee and two assistants.
Among those plaques on the Bieber dining room wall were several for excellence in archery.
As well as they could aboard ship, they practiced their weapons, and on calmer days Calis worked with them on archery.
But after Eldallan's bowmen had seen a few Angarak atrocities, their archery improved to the point that no place in the horde was truly safe from Asturian arrows, and Kal Torak of Mallorea took horrid casualties as he marched west toward Vo Mimbre.
I had done the same thing on key shots in archery tournaments: lifted my bow hand just as the shot went.