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Bow

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A bent stave that casts an arrow. Not a named hero’s bow alone, and not crossbow or longbow as specialty forms.

  • Bow is historically related to Wood.

    Meyrick’s armour and arms speech seats self and composite bows among wooden staves and horn-backed stocks. A named bow beside wood as its ordinary stave material, not longbow or crossbow as specialty forms.

    from Samuel Rush Meyrick · A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour, 1824

    historically related to · sourced · documented

European folklore

  • Crossbow is historically related to Bow.

    Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the crossbow among spanned mechanical bows of later medieval European arms. A named crossbow in that antient-armour speech, not a longbow hand-drawn war bow and not a bare arrow dump.

    from Samuel Rush Meyrick · A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour, 1824

    historically related to · sourced · documented

  • Longbow is historically related to Bow.

    Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the longbow among tall hand-drawn war bows of English and Welsh later medieval speech. A named longbow in that antient-armour speech, not a crossbow spanned engine and not a hunting short bow alone.

    from Samuel Rush Meyrick · A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour, 1824

    historically related to · sourced · documented

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