: a hand-drawn wooden bow held vertically and used especially by medieval English archers
Examples of longbow in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the WebDuring the Hundred Years’ War, the invention of the English longbow gave England an advantage over France.—Jacquelyn Schneider, Foreign Affairs, 3 Mar. 2023 Bows and Arrows Archer with medieval English longbow and arrows.—Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 7 Dec. 2023 It is thought that the yew was used to create longbows for his royal archers in the lead-up to the Battle of Bannockburn.—Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 7 June 2023 Then there are recurve bows with curved tips that create more energy than the longbow.—Patrick Cooke, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Nov. 2021 There’s the longbow like the English used to shoot, a D-shaped design, very simple thing.—Patrick Cooke, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Nov. 2021 The Iceman’s survival gear included a longbow of yew, a quiver of arrows, a copper ax and a kind of crude first-aid kit full of plants with powerful pharmacological properties.—New York Times, 2 Nov. 2021 On Bob’s 12th birthday, his parents gave him his first real bow, a Ben Pearson lemonwood longbow.—David Howard, Popular Mechanics, 11 Aug. 2021 Here, Spink walks us through how to make a 68-inch Native American longbow.—Andrew Del-Colle, Popular Mechanics, 16 Aug. 2020
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