Crossword clues for longbow
longbow
- Weapon having greater than average range seen on front of ship
- Arm taken by much acclaimed thespian?
- Desire to show obeisance — the fighting yeoman had it
- Archer's weapon
- Robin Hood's weapon
- Old English weapon
- Powerful wooden weapon used against the French at Agincourt
- Live action role-player's weapon
- Decisive weapon at Agincourt
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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 draw the longbow, to tell large stories.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. A large bow that has a strong tension, and is usually more than 3 feet tall. The most famous longbows in history were the English longbows, which were crafted of yew.
WordNet
n. a powerful wooden bow drawn by hand; usually 5-6 feet long; used in medieval England
Wikipedia
Longbow may refer to:
- Longbow, an archery weapon that uses elasticity to propel arrows
- English longbow, a particularly powerful longbow used by the medieval English and Welsh
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AH-64D Apache Longbow, an attack helicopter
- Longbow Fire Control Radar, a fire-control radar used by the Apache Longbow
- The AGM-114L Longbow Hellfire, an air-to-ground missile
- Dakota Longbow T-76, a sniper rifle
- Longbow Digital Arts, a computer game company
- Longbow (computer game), a series of combat flight simulator computer games
- Longbow bomber, a fictional spaceship from the Wing Commander series of computer games
- Longbow, a heroic paramilitary organization in the City of Heroes and City of Villains massively multiplayer online (MMO) games
A longbow is a type of bow that is tall—roughly equal to the height of the user; allowing the archer a fairly long draw, at least to the jaw. A longbow is not significantly recurved. Its limbs are relatively narrow so that they are circular or D-shaped in cross section. Flatbows can be just as long; the difference is that, in cross-section, a flatbow has limbs that are approximately rectangular.
Longbows have been made from many different woods by many cultures; in Europe they date from the Paleolithic, and since the Bronze Age were made mainly from yew, or from wych elm if yew was unavailable. The historical longbow was a self bow made of wood, but modern longbows may also be made from modern materials or by gluing different timbers together.
Organisations which run archery competitions have set out formal definitions for the various classes; many definitions of the longbow would exclude some medieval examples, materials, and techniques of use. According to the British Longbow Society, the English longbow is made so that its thickness is at least ⅝ (62.5%) of its width, as in Victorian longbows, and is widest at the handle. This differs from the Medieval longbow, which had a thickness between 33% and 75% of the width. Also, the Victorian longbow does not bend throughout the entire length, as does the medieval longbow. Longbows have been used for hunting and warfare, by many cultures around the world.
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.