Associations to the word «Crossbow»

Wiktionary

CROSSBOW, noun. A mechanised weapon, based on the bow and arrow, which fires bolts.

Dictionary definition

CROSSBOW, noun. A bow fixed transversely on a wooden stock grooved to direct the arrow (quarrel).

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope