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Revision as of 19:22, 10 November 2022
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Noun
stonebow (plural stonebows)
- (historical) A kind of crossbow used for shooting stones.
- Synonyms: bullet-shooting crossbow, (India, historical) goolail
- c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene v]:
- O, for a stone-bow, to hit him in the eye!
- (archaic) A toy catapult.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “stonebow”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)