Archery

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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     2. Archers, or bowmen, collectively.
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              Let all our archery fall off
              In wings of shot a-both sides of the van. --Webster
                                                    (1607).
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  archery
       n : the sport of shooting arrows with a bow

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  23 Moby Thesaurus words for "archery":
     artillery, ballistics, casting, chucking, firing, flinging,
     gunnery, heaving, hurling, jaculation, lobbing, missilery,
     musketry, pitching, projection, rocketry, shooting, skeet,
     skeet shooting, slinging, throwing, trajection, trapshooting