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# crossbow

«crossbow» in Mova's school dictionary: **A weapon made of a small bow fixed across a wooden stock…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a crossbow, crossbows)

### meaning for a pupil

A weapon made of a small bow fixed across a wooden stock, which shoots short arrows called bolts when you pull a trigger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crossbow/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons about the Middle Ages, crossbows were powerful and easy to learn compared with longbows. In stories and games, characters hunt or fight with crossbows. Phrases: "fire a crossbow", "crossbow bolt".

### examples

- Medieval soldiers fired crossbows at the castle walls. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crossbow/#x1)
- A crossbow bolt is shorter than an arrow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crossbow/#x2)
- Crossbows were slower to reload than longbows. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crossbow/#x3)
- The museum had a crossbow from the 1400s. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crossbow/#x4)
- Crossbows are dangerous weapons, not toys. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crossbow/#x5)
- In ancient China, people also used crossbows. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crossbow/#x6)
- Both portraits had many holes in them, because the baron's sons used the two old people as targets for their crossbows. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crossbow/#x7)

### note

One word. Plural: crossbows. Its arrows are called bolts or quarrels. In many places it is illegal for children to own or use a crossbow.

### In the corpora

- [Early wheelbarrows are recorded in Han China and crossbows by the 5th century BC; ancient Greece had its own early forms of both.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/53-china-the-four-great-inventions/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «crossbow» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crossbow/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.