The yew-tree (also tax-tree); transferred a bow made of the wood of the yew.
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释义 | society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > archer's weapons > [noun] > bow > types of bow (9) tax1541 The yew-tree (also tax-tree); transferred a bow made of the wood of the yew. livery bow?a1549 Designating weapons: issued as standard, regular, as livery arrow, livery bow, etc. Now historical. bow of lath1597 In wider application: A thin, narrow, flat piece of wood used for any purpose. Also, as the material of a counterfeit weapon, as bow of lath, sword of… yew1605 literary and poetic. A bow (bow, n.1 4a) made of yew wood. slug1614 A relaxed or weak bow. Obsolete. (Cf. slug, v.1 4.) seventy-five1840 †(a) Archery a bow with a draw weight of 75 lbs (obsolete); (b) a 75 mm calibre field gun characterized by a hydro-pneumatic recoil mechanism… self1856 A self bow (see sense B. 5). Now rare. three-wood1875 (a) Archery a bow made of three pieces of wood; also attributive; (b) Golf a wooden club providing medium loft, formerly called a spoon (spoon, n.… recurve1961 Archery. A backward-curving end of the limb of a bow; a bow with this feature. |
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