Word Meanings - BOWSHOT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The distance traversed by an arrow shot from a bow.

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• TRAVERSE
  Lying across; being in a direction across something else; as, paths cut with traverse trenches. Oak . . . being strong in all positions, may be better trusted in cross and traverse work. Sir H. Wotton. The ridges of the fallow field traverse.
• TRAVERSING
  Adjustable laterally; having a lateral motion, or a swinging motion; adapted for giving lateral motion. Traversing plate , one of two thick iron plates at the hinder part of a gun carriage, where the handspike is applied in traversing the piece.
• ARROWY
  1. Consisting of arrows. How quick they wheeled, and flying, behind them shot Sharp sleet of arrowy showers. Milton. 2. Formed or moving like, or in any respect resembling, an arrow; swift; darting; piercing. "His arrowy tongue." Cowper. By the
• DISTANCE
  A space marked out in the last part of a race course. The horse that ran the whole field out of distance. L'Estrange. Note: In trotting matches under the rules of the American Association, the distance varies with the conditions of the race, being
• TRAVERSER
  One who traverses, or denies. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, traverses, or moves, as an index on a scale, and the like.
• ARROWWOOD
  A shrub growing in damp woods and thickets; -- so called from the long, straight, slender shoots.
• TRAVERSABLE
  1. Capable of being traversed, or passed over; as, a traversable region. 2. Deniable; specifically , liable to legal objection; as, a traversable presentment. Sir M. Hale.
• ARROWHEADED
  Shaped like the head of an arow; cuneiform. Arrowheaded characters, characters the elements of which consist of strokes resembling arrowheads, nailheads, or wedges; -- hence called also nail-headed, wedge-formed, cuneiform, or cuneatic characters;
• ARROWHEAD
  An aquatic plant of the genus Sagittaria, esp. S. sagittifolia, -- named from the shape of the leaves. (more info) 1. The head of an arrow.
• ARROWROOT
  A west Indian plant of the genus Maranta, esp. M. arundinacea, now cultivated in many hot countries. It said that the Indians used the roots to neutralize the venom in wounds made by poisoned arrows. 2. A nutritive starch obtained from
• ARROWWORM
  A peculiar transparent worm of the genus Sagitta, living at the surface of the sea. See Sagitta.
• TRAVERS
  Across; athwart. The earl . . . caused . . . high trees to be hewn down, and laid travers one over another. Ld. Berners.
• ARROW
  A missile weapon of offense, slender, pointed, and usually feathered and barbed, to be shot from a bow. Broad arrow. An arrow with a broad head. A mark placed upon British ordnance and government stores, which bears a rude resemblance to a broad
• ARROW GRASS
  An herbaceous grasslike plant (Triglochin palustre, and other species) with pods opening so as to suggest barbed arrowheads.
• TRAVERSE DRILL
  A machine tool for drilling slots, in which the work or tool has a lateral motion back and forth; also, a drilling machine in which the spindle holder can be adjusted laterally.
• MARROWFAT
  A rich but late variety of pea.
• SPARROWWORT
  An evergreen shrub of the genus Erica .
• HANDBARROW
  A frame or barrow, without a wheel, carried by hand.
• NARROW-MINDED
  Of narrow mental scope; illiberal; mean. -- Nar"row-mind`ed*ness, n.
• HARROWER
  One who harrows.
• WHEELBARROW
  A light vehicle for conveying small loads. It has two handles and one wheel, and is rolled by a single person.
• NARROWER
  One who, or that which, narrows or contracts. Hannah More.
• HARROW
  An obstacle formed by turning an ordinary harrow upside down, the frame being buried. Bush harrow, a kind of light harrow made of bushes, for harrowing grass lands and covering seeds, or to finish the work of a toothed harrow. -- Drill harrow. See
• CONTRAVERSION
  A turning to the opposite side; antistrophe. Congreve.
• WATER SPARROW
  The reed warbler. The reed bunting.
• BARROWIST
  A follower of Henry Barrowe, one of the founders of Independency or Congregationalism in England. Barrowe was executed for nonconformity in 1953.
• SUWARROW
  The giant cactus ; -- so named by the Indians of Arizona. Called also saguaro.
• MARROW
  The tissue which fills the cavities of most bones; the medulla. In the larger cavities it is commonly very fatty, but in the smaller cavities it is much less fatty, and red or reddish in color. 2. The essence; the best part. It takes from
• SPARROWGRASS
  Asparagus. See the Note under Asparagus.