crossbow
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- n a bow fixed transversely on a wooden stock grooved to direct the arrow (quarrel)
- That is, until some crackpot with a crossbow shot the 600-lb.
- The women go bare-breasted and the men, who scratch out a living by farming and hunting with crossbows and knives, wear loincloths.
- Police found huge caches of illegal arms, ranging from automatic rifles to crossbows, but hundreds of thousands of dollars had disappeared from the colony's safe.