
Meaning of ARCHERY
| Pronunciation: | | 'ârchuree
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WordNet Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | [n] the sport of shooting arrows with a bow |
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| | See Also: | | athletics, sport | |
Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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).
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Dream Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | You are well organized, you have set your objectives and the means to achieve it. It seems that you are on the good tracks. |
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Thesaurus Terms |
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| | Related Terms: | | artillery, ballistics, casting, chucking, firing, flinging, gunnery, heaving, hurling, jaculation, lobbing, missilery, musketry, pitching, projection, rocketry, shooting, skeet, skeet shooting, slinging, throwing, trajection, trapshooting |
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