| 单词 | arrow flight |
| 释义 | > as lemmasarrow flight arrow flight n. (a) the distance which an arrow travels when shot from a bow, a bowshot; cf. arrow shot n. (b); (b) a volley of arrows (poetic and rare). ΚΠ 1642 R. Maxwell in E. Borlase Hist. Execrable Irish Rebellion (1680) App. 133 They..drove her about an arrow flight to the Blackwater, and drowned her. 1808 W. Scott Marmion vi. xxvii. 356 Fell England's arrow-flight like rain. 1928 Boys' Life Aug. 3/3 Certain signs less than an arrow flight away down along the river bend. 1966 M. Alexander Battle of Maldon in Earliest Eng. Poems (1970) 166 Nor might any of them harm another Save who through arrow-flight fell dead. 2002 R. Holdstock Iron Grail (2005) xix. 249 Two arrow flights away, behind us, summer bloomed. < as lemmas |
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