Crossbows is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CROSSBOWS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• CROSSBOW, 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.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a kind of weapon

Words related to CROSSBOWS

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How to use CROSSBOWS in a sentence

• Here a party of young men were jumping, or wrestling, or shooting at a mark with cross-bows.
• Then the Genoese bent their cross-bows and began to shoot.
• There was no body of troops, nor armor, no shields, no crossbows, no swords.
• Same as preceding, of yellow ware, with representation, on cream-white ground, of sacred-feathered, cross-bows.
• Small bowl, with representation of the sacred cross-bows.
• Another form of this sport is shooting with crossbows at a target.
• A few of these were armed with cross-bows and only thirteen with muskets, while the horses numbered only sixteen.
• In carts drawn by oxen were barrels of powder, cross-bows, arrows, cannon-balls, and guns of all kinds, muskets, fowling-pieces, and large cannon.
• The women and girls were standing around, attentively and curiously watching the men, who, collected under a tent, were shooting with crossbows at the target.
• By it the butt and rover-bows are strung, the crossbows bended, and the slings made fixed.
• And the young men with their bows or cross-bows never dreamed of killing Rabbit.
• The three other hunters carried crossbows and poisoned arrows.
• Such a distance for primitive guns or crossbows might as well be a hundred miles, but with our high-power rifles we were able to shoot as many as were needed for food.
• We were told by the Lutzus on the Mekong River that by building huge fires in the woods they could attract the animals and shoot them with their crossbows.
• We continued quietly in the temple for one day, to repose after the fatigues of the battle, occupying ourselves in repairing our cross-bows, and making arrows.
• Shortly after him another vessel brought forty soldiers with ten horses, and a good supply of crossbows and other arms.
• Captain Pedro Barba, who commanded the crossbows, ordered each of his soldiers to provide two cords and nuts, and to try the range of their bows.
• One of the captains, named Portilla, was slain, and Captain Pedro Barba, the commander of our crossbows, died of his wounds.
• He called out to the people on board to bring to, but without effect, and then ordered his musketeers and cross-bows to present.
• And knowing that they were in rebellion he ought not to have permitted them to purchase from the ships 56 swords and 60 cross-bows.
• He carried with him a company of thirty cross-bows, and was well received by Velasquez, who gave him the chief command under himself.
• The cross-bows were ordered to be inspected, all their cords, nuts, and arrows to be put in complete order, and the range of each to be ascertained by shooting at a match.
• Seeing no other alternative but retreat or war, Cortes ordered three guns to be placed in each vessel, and divided the musketeers and cross-bows among them.
• Some of the crossbows used by these latter had a range, we are told, of 2500 paces! European history bears some similar evidence.

Similar words containing CROSSBOW without suffix s

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