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longbow
[ lawng-boh, long- ]
noun
- a large bow drawn by hand, as that used by English archers from the 12th to the 16th centuries.
longbow
/ 藞濒蓲艐藢产蓹蕣 /
noun
- a large powerful hand-drawn bow, esp as used in medieval England
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Idioms and Phrases
- draw the longbow, to exaggerate in telling stories; overstate something:
He's sure to draw the longbow on the size of his catch of fish.
Example Sentences
His corpse was preserved as a 鈥渘atural mummy鈥 until 1991, when hikers found him along with some of his clothing and gear 鈥 including a copper ax, a longbow and a bearskin hat.
They each have a longbow slung over one shoulder.
Thomas broached a long list of historical figures, including the English King Henry VIII, who the ruling says worried that the advent of handguns threatened his subjects鈥 proficiency with the longbow.
One thinks of the longbow used by the English archers at Agincourt in the Middle Ages or the heavily armoured tanks that epitomised the ground combat of World War Two.
The Iceman鈥檚 survival gear included a longbow of yew, a quiver of arrows, a copper ax and a kind of crude first-aid kit full of plants with powerful pharmacological properties.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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