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archery|ˈɑːtʃərɪ|
[a. OF. archerie, f. archier.]
1. The practice or art of shooting with bow and arrow; skill as an archer. Also fig.
a1400Cov. Myst. 44 Myht nevyr man fynde My pere of archerye. c1425Wyntoun Cron. ix. xxvii. 309 Gud yomen for Archery. 1588Shakes. Tit. A. iv. iii. 2 Sir Boy let me see your Archerie. 1812Byron Ch. Har. i. lxxii, Doomed to die..by Love's sad archery. 1859J. Lang Wand. India 25 An Archery meeting or a pic-nic.
2. collect. An archer's weapons; bows, arrows, etc.
1440Promp. Parv., Archerye, Sagittaria, arcus. 1828Scott F.M. Perth III. 77 [Their bows] as well as their arrows, were..far inferior to the archery of merry England. 1882Pall Mall G. 3 July 8/2 An archery manufacturer.
3. collect. A company or corps of archers.
c1465Chevy Chase (Percy Fol.) 85 He rod uppon a corsiare Throughe a hondrith archery. 1814Scott Ld. of Isles vi. xxii, Signal for England's archery To halt and bend their bows.
†4. A feudal service; (see quot.) Obs.
1691Blount Law Dict., Archery was a Service of keeping a Bow for the Use of the Lord, to defend his Castle [per Serjeantiam Archeriæ, Coke On Litt. 107 a.] |