Bow
Of arm and bow and arrow.
A weapon for shooting arrows, composed of a curved piece of resilient wood with a taut cord to propel the arrow.
This concept's ID is @1~15317
Contains
- Cupid's bow
A curved bow with reversed curve ends.
- longbow
A powerful wooden bow drawn by hand; usually 5-6 feet long; used in medieval England.
- limb
Either of the two halves of a bow from handle to tip; "the upper limb of the bow".
- bowstring
The string of an archer's bow.
- handbow
A bow drawn by hand as distinguished from a crossbow.
- crossbow
A bow fixed transversely on a wooden stock grooved to direct the arrow (quarrel).