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单词 archery
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archeryn.

/ˈɑːtʃəri/
Etymology: < Old French archerie, < archier.
1. The practice or art of shooting with bow and arrow; skill as an archer. Also figurative.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > use of bow and arrow > [noun]
archerya1400
shootage?c1547
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > competitive shooting > archery > [noun]
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artilleryc1550
toxophilitism1840
toxology1843
toxophilism1887
toxophily1887
a1400 Cov. Myst. 44 Myht nevyr man fynde My pere of archerye.
a1530 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Royal) ix. 3137 Gud yomen for archery.
1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus iv. iii. 2 Sir boy let me see your Archerie . View more context for this quotation
1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II i. lxxii. 44 Doom'd to die,..by Love's sad archery.
1859 J. Lang Wanderings in India 25 An Archery meeting or a pic-nic.
2. collective. An archer's weapons; bows, arrows, etc.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > archer's weapons > [noun]
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fletchery1594
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 14 Archerye, sagittaria, arcus.
1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth iv, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. III. 77 [Their bows] as well as their arrows, were..far inferior to the archery of merry England.
1882 Pall Mall Gaz. 3 July 8/2 An archery manufacturer.
3. collective. A company or corps of archers.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > archer > collectively
archeryc1560
c1560 Hunting Cheviot in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1889) III. vi. 309 He rod vppon a corsiare Throughe a hondrith archery.
1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles vi. xxii. 252 Signal for England's archery To halt and bend their bows.
4. A feudal service; (see quot.) Obsolete.
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society > authority > subjection > service > feudal service > [noun] > specific service
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carriage1423
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castle-guard1576
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1691 Blount's Νομο-λεξικον (ed. 2) Archery was a Service of keeping a Bow for the Use of the Lord, to defend his Castle [per Serjeantiam Archeriæ, Coke On Litt. 107 a.]

Compounds

archery-ball n.
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1806 M. Edgeworth Moral Tales (ed. 2) III. 169 He saw, and was struck with the beauty of lady Augusta——at this archery ball.
1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda I. ii. xi 208 The archery ball..was not an escapement for youthful high spirits.
1919 Times 24 Oct. 6/2 On the night of the Archery Ball he found Mrs. Everitt sitting outside in an unlighted tent with a young officer.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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