broad arrow

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. a metal arrowhead, comprising a tang and two barbs meeting at a point; used traditionally in heraldry, and later by the British government to mark government property and convict uniforms.
    — Their boats were manned by convicts, dressed in prison clothing, freely decorated with numbers and emblazoned all over with the ominous broad arrow.
  2. An arrow fitted with this arrowhead. historical
    — It was his ill fate, to be a ſleepe, as old Abbas was going a hunting within the path, the King ſaw him not, but his pamperd horſe ſlartled at him, whereat immediatly the King ſent a broad Arrow into the poore mans heart, and ere all his followers had paſt, the man was kild a hundred times ouer, if ſo many Arrowes could haue forfeited ſo many liues, in imitating the King, as if the deed were good and commendable.

词形变化

broad arrows plural

词源

From Middle English brodarwe, brode arewe, brood arowe.
0 次浏览 数据来源: Wiktionary