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: a weapon for shooting quarrels and stones that consists chiefly of a short bow mounted crosswise near the end of a stock
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Shotguns, pistols, AR-15s, and boxes of ammo sat by a bunk bed, along with a crossbow.
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Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
However, by that point, every bowhunter in the woods (and some crossbow and gun hunters, seasons depending), are in trees, too.
—Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 24 Oct. 2024
If summer is your season of choice, try to plan your visit for the last weekend of July, when a four-day medieval festival takes over the microstate with historical reenactments, crossbow and flag-throwing competitions, and plenty of food, drink, music, and of course, stuff to buy.
—Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 9 Oct. 2024
The company revised the rules, rebuilt the crossbows and the catapults and introduced two ways to get into the game.
—Rob Wieland, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
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Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
However, by that point, every bowhunter in the woods (and some crossbow and gun hunters, seasons depending), are in trees, too.
—Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 24 Oct. 2024
If summer is your season of choice, try to plan your visit for the last weekend of July, when a four-day medieval festival takes over the microstate with historical reenactments, crossbow and flag-throwing competitions, and plenty of food, drink, music, and of course, stuff to buy.
—Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 9 Oct. 2024
The company revised the rules, rebuilt the crossbows and the catapults and introduced two ways to get into the game.
—Rob Wieland, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
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“Crossbow.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crossbow. Accessed 15 Nov. 2024.
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crossbow
noun
cross·bow
-ˌbō 
: a short bow mounted crosswise near the end of a wooden stock that shoots short arrows
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