arrer

As some wise writer on this blog has pointed out again and again, "it ain't the arrer, it's the Indian."

Gun News from Remington 2008

Again, and again, the Thunderf****r Magnum with Nevermiss optics is no substitute for proper marksmanship technique and good shot placement, what ever the arrer any particular Indian chooses to shoot.

Gun News from Remington 2008

It is quite like the bow and arrer used at this day by certain tribes of American Injuns, and they shoot 'em off with such a excellent precision that I almost sigh'd to be an Injun when I was in the Rocky

Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature Various

Agin we gullide o'er the foamin biller like a arrer shot from a cross-bow, an culleave the briny main.

Lost in the Fog James De Mille

Ȝif he arrer dede litel te gode. ðar after he doð michel ` e´ lasse. ⁊ swo he forfarð. for ðan ðe he his priestes lare ne his ræd lesten ne folȝin ne wile Carite sprat his bowes o {n} bræde ⁊

Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall

Among this collection of choice cuttlery I notist the bow and arrer which those hot-heded old chaps used to conduct battles with.

Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature Various

I know whur there's a petrified tree and oceans of Injun arrer heads, if she'd jest waited.

The Dude Wrangler Caroline Lockhart 1916

"I were a fine young chap in those days, tall I were, an 'straight as a arrer, I be a bit different now."

The Broad Highway Jeffery Farnol 1915

"And she a pretty woman, too," said the milliner; "as straight as an arrer, and slim, and with all that hair, scarcely turned at all."

The Copy-Cat, & Other Stories 1910

While de folks wuz swarmin '' roun 'and laffin' and hurrahin ', an arrer uv convicshun went in ter his proud heart an' brought 'im low.

John Jasper: The Unmatched Negro Philosopher and Preacher William Eldridge 1908