BOW AND ARROW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bow and arrow mean? 

• BOW AND ARROW (noun)
  The noun BOW AND ARROW has 1 sense:

1. a weapon consisting of arrows and the bow to shoot them

  Familiarity information: BOW AND ARROW used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOW AND ARROW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A weapon consisting of arrows and the bow to shoot them

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("bow and arrow" is a kind of...):

arm; weapon; weapon system (any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting)

Meronyms (parts of "bow and arrow"):

arrow (a projectile with a straight thin shaft and an arrowhead on one end and stabilizing vanes on the other; intended to be shot from a bow)

bow (a weapon for shooting arrows, composed of a curved piece of resilient wood with a taut cord to propel the arrow)

 Context examples 

Had He wished help, he said, He could have summoned legions of archangels from heaven, so what need had He of your poor bow and arrow?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In a little time I felt something alive moving on my left leg, which advancing gently forward over my breast, came almost up to my chin; when, bending my eyes downwards as much as I could, I perceived it to be a human creature not six inches high, with a bow and arrow in his hands, and a quiver at his back.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)