stonebow
English
Etymology
Noun
stonebow (plural stonebows)
- (historical) A kind of crossbow used for shooting stones.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
- (archaic) A toy catapult.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “stonebow”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)