stonebow
English
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Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈstəʊnbəʊ/
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.
- 1612 January 5 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), Francis Beaumont, Iohn Fletcher, A King and No King. […], London: […] [John Beale] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1619, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
- Children will shortly take him for a wall,
And set their stone-bowes in his forhead
References
- “stonebow”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.