Fitting as an arrow

Usage examples of nocking.

It only occurred to me later that the thing that saved me was the fact that there were so many out-domain lords around, making it both polite and politic to get permission before nocking an arrow.

His eyes narrowed toward the figure in blue nocking yet another shaft.

The cropped hair felt strange after letting it flow down her back for so many years, but she couldn’t afford to have anything interfere with the smooth, swift movement of drawing an arrow from the quiver and nocking it to the bow.

She stopped a few lengths from the top and went the rest of the way on foot, pulling an arrow from her quiver and nocking her bow as she got her first look at the field and the enemy.

I couldn't help but notice, though, that his archers were inching closer, and they were nocking arrows.

He watched them frantically nocking arrows as they turned towards the line of trees farther up the bank.