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单词 archer
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archern.

Brit. /ˈɑːtʃə/, U.S. /ˈɑrtʃər/
Forms: Middle English archeer, archar, Middle English archere, archier, Middle English– archer, 1500s artcher.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman archer, Old French archier < Latin arcārium, < arcus bow.
1.
a. One who shoots with bow and arrows, esp. one who uses them in war; a bowman. Also figurative.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > archer
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > arrow > [noun]
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > competitive shooting > archery > [noun] > archer
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1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. 199 Archers and vot men.
1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 45 An archier to faile of the butte is no wonder.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) ix. 151 Thair archaris [1489 Adv. archeris] furth to thame thai send.
1553 Four Supplic. 100 Shepeherdes be but yll artchers.
c1560 Hunting Cheviot in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1889) III. vi. 309 Of fifteen hondrith archars of Ynglonde went away but seuenti and thre.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III v. vi. 69 Draw archers draw your arrowes to the head. View more context for this quotation
1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing ii. i. 361 If we can do this, Cupid is no longer an Archer . View more context for this quotation
1670 C. Cotton tr. G. Girard Hist. Life Duke of Espernon i. ii. 53 The Payment of the Grand Provost, and his Archers.
1808 W. Scott Marmion v. xvii. 267 But Nottingham has archers good, And Yorkshire men are stern of mood.
b. attributive, as in archer-craft, archer-god, archer-queen, archer-rank.
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1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles vi. xxiii. 253 They rush'd among the archer ranks.
1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise I. 73 Little could avail Their archer craft.
1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad I. i. 2 Apollo, archer-god.
2. An arrow. (Perhaps by confusion: cf. arbalestre n. 2.)
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c1400 Rom. Rose 4191 Springolds, gonnes, bowes, and archers.
1634 Malory's Arthur (1816) I. 91 One of them, with a bow and archer, smote sir Gawaine.
3. Old name of the bishop in chess. Obsolete.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > chess > [noun] > pieces > bishop
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1656 F. Beale tr. G. Greco Royall Game Chesse-play 2 A Bishop, or Archer, who is commonly figured with his head cloven.
4. The ninth zodiacal constellation, Sagittarius.
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the world > the universe > constellation > zodiacal constellation > [noun] > Sagittarius
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1594 T. Blundeville Exercises iii. i. xxiv. f. 157v Sagittarius, that is to say the Archer..hath his head towardes the North.
1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fifth 58 Near Heaven's Archer, in the Zodiac, hung.
1868 W. Lockyer & J. N. Lockyer tr. A. Guillemin Heavens (ed. 3) 328 Then partly in the Milky Way, the Archer.
5. Ichthyology. A fish ( Toxotes jaculator Cuvier), found in Java and Sumatra, which has the power of shooting a drop of water at insects that rest near.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Percoidei > [noun] > member of family Toxotidae (archer)
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1834 Penny Cycl. II. 272/2 The drop seldom fails to hit the mark and precipitate the insect into the water, where it is, of course, within reach of the archer.
1847 Nat. Encycl. II. 14/2 The archer..is of a yellowish colour, marked in the back with five brown spots.
6. water archer n. obsolete name of the Arrowhead ( Sagittaria sagittifolia).
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > aquatic, marsh, and sea-shore plants > [noun] > other aquatic plants
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1617 J. Minsheu Ἡγεμὼν είς τὰς γλῶσσας: Ductor in Linguas 493 Water Archer, or Arrowhead..because it is good to pull out arrows.
1783 Ainsworth's Thes. Linguæ Latinæ (new ed.) Water archer, Sagittaria.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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