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Definition of Handbow
1. Noun. A bow drawn by hand as distinguished from a crossbow.
Generic synonyms: Bow
Lexicographical Neighbors of Handbow
Literary usage of Handbow
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1889)
"handbow. The long or common bow. HAND-BREDE. A hand's breadth. (Л.-S.) HAND-CANNON.
A musket. Hall. HAND-CLOTH. A handkerchief. Line. HAND-CLOUT. A towel. ..."
2. Lives of the Lindsays: Or, A Memoir of the Houses of Crawford and Balcarres by Alexander Crawford Lindsay Crawford (1849)
"... some to rin with the spear, and some to fecht with the battle-aix, some with
the two-handit sword, and some with the handbow, and all other exercise. ..."
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