Search for crossword answers and clues

Answer for the clue "Old English weapon ", 7 letters:
longbow

Alternative clues for the word longbow

Word definitions for longbow in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Longbow \Long"bow`\, n. The ordinary bow, not mounted on a stock; -- so called in distinction from the crossbow when both were used as weapons of war. Also, sometimes, such a bow of about the height of a man, as distinguished from a much shorter one. To ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a powerful wooden bow drawn by hand; usually 5-6 feet long; used in medieval England

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He set about making a longbow with his customary craftsmanship. ▪ His concern about the organization of the militia was timely, but his intended reliance on the longbow was hardly forward-looking. ▪ His original longbow was losing ...

Usage examples of longbow.

It was at that point that the Baron of Wildantor gave the shrieking Murgos a pointed demonstration of the incredible range of the Asturian longbow.

He would have looked at home on a royal chariot, gripping the carved bonewood of a longbow, polished armor gleaming in the cold sunlight, contemplating the battlefields lay.

Raesa and Cera shouldered their longbows and prepared their quivers, while the terrible sounds from outside drew Calli to the window, eyes wide, her heart pounding in her breast.

Martin Longbow had once told the boys they lived in hidden, deep glades near Elvandar.

While closemouthed when not among their own kind they were less guarded with Longbow, for in the Huntmaster of Crydee they sensed a kindred spirit.

Pikes, lances, longbows, everythingI guess to keep any of it from reaching Crydee somehow.

Hunters armed with longbows and daubed with yellow mud crept far ahead of the tribe.

Sunbright and five others crouched in tall yellow grass, nocked arrows to longbows, and waited.

Bolts shot from longbows and crossbows bounced off the armor harmlessly, at a distance.

Azoun glanced behind him at the four groups of archers and prayed their longbows would prove a match for the short, curved bows the barbarians fired from horseback.

At this relatively short range, the longbows did even more damage to the massed Tuigan troops.

As before, the longbows rained arrows on the Tuigan charge twice before the horsewarriors stopped.

General Elventree, your men proved that our longbows have better range than their shorter bows.

Armed with longbows, they sent shaft after shaft over our heads and down into the gap.

PickerI want all these longbows trundled out and issued to everyone without a munition or spell in hand, twenty arrows each, and I want them to have pikes as well.