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Archery
Archery Arch"er*y, n. [OE. archerie.]
1. The use of the bow and arrows in battle, hunting, etc.;
the art, practice, or skill of shooting with a bow and
arrows.
2. Archers, or bowmen, collectively.
Let all our archery fall off In wings of shot a-both
sides of the van. --Webster
(1607).
Meaning of Archery from wikipedia
- Archery is the art, sport, practice, or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows. The word comes from the Latin arcus for bow. Historically, archery has been...
- Archery, or the use of bow and arrows, was developed by the end of the Upper Paleolithic or earlier. Archery has been an important military and hunting...
- cavalryman armed with a bow and able to shoot while riding from horseback. Archery has occasionally been used from the backs of other riding animals. In large...
- Archery had its debut at the 1900 Summer Olympics and has been contested in 16 Olympiads. Eighty-four nations have competed in the Olympic archery events...
- elastic launching device (bow) and long-shafted projectiles (arrows). Archery is the art, practice, or skill of using bows to shoot arrows. A person...
- Target archery is the most po****r form of archery, in which members shoot at stationary circular targets at varying distances. All types of bow – longbow...
- millennia, Chinese archery (simplified Chinese: 中华射艺; traditional Chinese: 中華射藝; pinyin: zhōnghuá shè yì, the art of Chinese archery) has pla**** a pivotal...
- This is a list of archery terms, including both the equipment and the practice. A brief description for each word or phrase is also included. Contents...
- Turkish archery is a tradition of archery which became highly developed in the Ottoman Empire, although its origins date back to the Eurasian Steppe in...
- Operation Archery, also known as the Måløy Raid, was a British Combined Operations raid during World War II against German positions on the island of...
