[
US
/ˈɫɔŋˌboʊ/
]
[ UK /lˈɒŋbəʊ/ ]
[ UK /lˈɒŋbəʊ/ ]
NOUN
- 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