ZebraWords.com - The Definition of 'Archery', Synonyms of 'Archery' & More on 'Archery'

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

archery
    n 1: the sport of shooting arrows with a bow

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Archery \Arch"er*y\, n. [OE. archerie.]
   1. The use of the bow and arrows in battle, hunting, etc.;
      the art, practice, or skill of shooting with a bow and
      arrows.
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   2. Archers, or bowmen, collectively.
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            Let all our archery fall off
            In wings of shot a-both sides of the van. --Webster
                                                  (1607).
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Thesaurus Results for Archery:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

artillery, ballistics, casting, chucking, firing, flinging, gunnery, heaving, hurling, jaculation, lobbing, missilery, musketry, pitching, projection, rocketry, shooting, skeet, skeet shooting, slinging, throwing, trajection, trapshooting

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