archery

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
archery
    n 1: the sport of shooting arrows with a bow
from 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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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
23 Moby Thesaurus words for "archery":
      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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