barrow | barrowful, cartload |
bird-bolt, burbolt | short blunt-headed arrow for shooting birds |
bolt | [short and thick, crossbow] arrow |
burbolt | short blunt-headed arrow for shooting birds |
butt-shaft | blunt-headed arrow |
channel | narrow inlet, passage into a harbour |
costermonger | [sellers of fruit (originally ‘costard-apples’) and vegetables] barrow-boy, apple-seller |
creek | winding path, narrow lane |
Cupid | [pron: 'kyoopid] Roman god of love, son of Venus and Mercury; a winged, blindfolded boy with curved bow and arrows |
dart | arrow; or: light spear |
dart | hurl like an arrow |
darting | arrow-shooting |
edge | high and narrow ridge |
endart | embed, bury, send in [as an arrow] |
eyas-musket | young male sparrow-hawk |
farrow | [of pigs] litter, young, piglet |
flight | [of arrows] power of flight, size and weight |
fork | barbed arrow-head |
hard | painful, harrowing, tough |
harrow | disturb, distress, vex |
harrow | disturb, distress, vex |
head | arrow-head |
Hellespont | ['helespont] Dardanelles; narrow strait in NW Turkey, connecting the Aegean Sea and the Sea of Marmara |
hewgh | sound made by an arrow through the air |
loose | [archery] shoot an arrow |
loveshaft | love-causing arrow |
marrow | rich and nutritious substance derived from bone cavities |
marrow | spirit, courage, strength |
narrow | limited, very small, poor |
narrowly | carefully, with close attention |
narrow-prying | inquisitive, snooping, meddlesome |
pendant | long narrow flag, pennon, pennant |
pinching | bitingly cold; or: narrowly restricting |
pithless | feeble, frail, puny [lacking pith, or marrow] |
shaft | [long and slender] arrow |
side-piercing | heartrending, heartbreaking, harrowing |
strait | tight, close-fitting, narrow |
strait | narrow, cramped, confined |
taborin | type of drum [narrower and longer than a tabor] |
tedious | painful, irksome, harrowing |
unbent | [archery] not bent, not prepared to release an arrow |