Crossbow is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CROSSBOW in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a weapon for shooting bolts, formed of a bow placed crosswise on a stock
• a medieval bow of a kind that is fixed across a wooden support and has a groove for the bolt and a mechanism for drawing and releasing the string.
• weapon consisting of a bow fixed across a wooden stock
• A weapon, used in discharging arrows, formed by placing a bow crosswise on a stock.
• a bow fixed transversely on a wooden stock grooved to direct the arrow (quarrel)
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a kind of weapon

Words related to CROSSBOW

crossbows16

Words that contain CROSSBOW

crossbows16 crossbower17 crossbowers18 crossbowman20 crossbowmen20

How to use CROSSBOW in a sentence

• An archer of Chalus, who had recognised him and was watching from the top of the rampart, sent a bolt from a crossbow, which hit him full in the chest.
• With his cross-bow, and his quiver, The huntsman speeds his way, Over mountain, dale, and river, At the dawning of the day.
• Henslow endeavoured to force his will upon the visions, and to reproduce the cross-bow, but the first attempt was an utter failure.
• If these localities are correct, he must indeed have been master of the cross-bow.
• Centuries have passed away, yet are the merry men of the cross-bow not forgotten.
• It is chiefly to the use of the cross-bow that we propose to confine ourselves upon the present occasion.
• According to Sir John Smith a cross-bow would kill point blank 60 yards, and if elevated above 160.
• A Peasant sitting on a stone with dog and cross-bow.
• She often shot with a cross-bow in the paddock at Oatlands.
• Him the Admiral now put forward with his great crossbow and long arrows.
• Taking a crossbow he passed alone through the palms into the deeper wood.
• While thus engaged she was struck by a bolt from a cross-bow, between her shoulder and neck.
• He took his cross-bow and two arrows, one of which he placed in the bow, the other he stuck behind in his collar.
• The water reached, he was placed in a boat, his cross-bow being also brought and laid beside the steersman.
• He was dressed in ancient garb, carrying a large crossbow in his right hand.
• Then he had been in his silk suit, his hands had been rough with his cross-bow, his beard had been soft on his chin, and the blood hot in his cheeks.
• The army now amounted to six hundred men, forty of whom were cavalry, with eighty musketeers and crossbow men.
• When Dame Jeanne discovered it she imprisoned her daughter in a dungeon and welcomed the younger son by shooting at him with a cross-bow.
• Then to grasp the sword she hastened, And to seize the spear of silver, And to lift the copper crossbow.
• He took down his cross-bow with a view to distracting his thoughts by going hunting.
• Betwixt the third couple of towers were the butts and marks for shooting with a snapwork gun, an ordinary bow for common archery, or with a crossbow.
• Therefore caused he to be made for him, whilst he was yet little, a pretty crossbow wherewith to shoot at small birds, which now they call the great crossbow at Chantelle.
• But he departed away so speedily that a bolt or arrow out of a crossbow could not have had a swifter motion.
• In after-days this defect in the cross-bow was removed, but it existed in full force in 1346.
• I wished with all my heart for a cross-bow or any shooting weapon.
• Canvas, How to Make 154 Counter Brush for a Shop 419 Crossbow and Arrow Sling, How to Make 339 Crutch.
• A crossbow cost fifty crowns, a musket a hundred, a horse eight hundred or a thousand, and every thing else in proportion.
• In a somewhat costly belt hung a light short sword, while across his knees lay a crossbow, in itself almost a sure sign of its bearer being of other than Saxon blood.
• Huge sheaves of arrows and piles of crossbow bolts, were in readiness, and in all, save the number of men, Wortham had for weeks been prepared for the siege.
• The SANG-MIAU tribe of KWEI-CHAU, with the Cross-bow.
• The crossbow, though apparently indigenous among various tribes of Indo-China, seems to have been a new introduction in European warfare in the 12th century.
• He was afterwards grand master of the cross-bow men.
• The cross-bow with which he shoots the bird is a mediaeval property.
• I made it myself of the best Low Country cross-bow steel.
• Willie had a crossbow, but up to this date I had never envied him its possession.
• The stock of our crossbow was cut out of a board of soft wood 1 inch thick to as near the shape of a gun as we could get it.

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