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longbow

[ US /ˈɫɔŋˌboʊ/ ]
[ UK /lˈɒŋbə‍ʊ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a powerful wooden bow drawn by hand; usually 5-6 feet long; used in medieval England

How To Use longbow In A Sentence

  • The others followed suit, some drawing swords, others fitting arrows into yew longbows.
  • This single battle is taken as proof of how just effective the longbow was as a weapon.
  • As these bows more closely resemble a longbow, they can be shot either right-handed or left-handed, due to the ‘wrap-around’ type grip.
  • - the longbow is the peculiar and decilive advan - tage of the Englifti. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • They took five shotguns, a longbow, arrows, a crossbow and bolts.
  • South East Wales was where the best longbowmen were found but others were recruited from as far away as Pembroke. Archive 2007-03-01
  • They took five shotguns, a longbow, arrows, a crossbow and bolts.
  • And while the rebels formed up on the ridge, the royalists did the same some 500 yards away - out of shot from the dreaded longbows.
  • In the center was an enormous longbow with a quiver of arrows beside it on its own peg.
  • They tried to train their own longbowmen, but the laws they enacted failed. Times, Sunday Times
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