longbow
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- n a powerful wooden bow drawn by hand; usually 5-6 feet long; used in medieval England
- At 60 he still holds the jiu-jitsu championship of Japan and twangs a deadly longbow.
- The introduction of new highly mobile and simply operated antiaircraft and antitank missiles, Smart argues, "marks a transformation that recalls the way in which the longbow .
- By the mid14th century, advances in technology namely, the high-velocity crossbow and longbow necessitated steel-plate armor that covered from head to toe.