单词 | arrow shot |
释义 | > as lemmasarrow shot arrow shot n. (a) the action or an act of shooting an arrow; an arrow or arrows so shot; (b) the distance which an arrow travels when shot from a bow, a bowshot. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of length > [noun] > units of length or distance > distance covered by a bow-shot draughtc1330 arrow shotc1487 start1820 society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > use of bow and arrow > [noun] > discharging arrow loose1519 arrow shot1653 c1487 J. Skelton tr. Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca Historica iv. 289 In puttyng theym to flight they wolde ensu vppon the chace and gall theym with arow-shot. 1511 Pylgrymage Richarde Guylforde (Pynson) f. xxxviv About .iiij. arowe shot without the sayde Cytie of Nazareth towardes the South is the place called Saltus Domini. 1653 H. Holcroft tr. Procopius Gothick Warre iii. 79 in tr. Procopius Hist. Warres Justinian Attending the cure of his Wound without Arrow-shot. 1759 Mod. Part Universal Hist. V. iv. iii. 141 Mahmûd was slain by a random arrow-shot. 1868 C. M. Yonge Cameos 1st Ser. Introd. 1 Tyrrell's arrow-shot. 1963 Poet Lore Winter 152 Twice it [sc. a stallion] had been wounded by arrow shots. 2001 M. Blakely Moon Med. (2003) xli. 380 Water is forty arrow shots away. < as lemmas |
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