Day 1318 Day 1320 Lewis, April 12, 1806 Saturday April 12th 1806. It rained the greater part of last night and still continued to rain this morning. I therefore determined to take up the…
The Indian soldier is so called, says Bishop Heber, from sip, a bow, their principal weapon in olden times. (Sipahi, a soldier.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer…
The long bow; exaggeration. “If the captain has not taken `traveller's licence,' we have in Norway a most successful development of peasant proprietorship.” —W. Bowerman. Source:…
French of “Stratford atte Bowe.” “There is a spring which (so they say), if anyone tastes, he murders his French [Gallice barbarizat]; so that when anyone speaks that language ill, we say…
I will make either a shaft or bolt of it. I will apply it to one use or another. The bolt was the crossbow arrow, the shaft was the arrow of the long-bow. Source: Dictionary of Phrase…
Day 574 Day 576 Clark, April 3, 1805 April the 3rd Thursday 1805 a white frost this morning, Some ice on the edge of the water, a fine day Pack up and prepare to load Mrs. La Roche…
Day 990 Day 992 Clark, November 6, 1805 November 6th Wednesday 1805 A cool wet raney morning we Set out early at 4 miles pass 2 Lodges of Indians in a Small bottom on the Lard Side I…
Day 304 Day 306 Clark, September 27, 1804 27th of Septr. Thursday 1804 I rose early aftr a bad nights Sleep found the Chief all up, and the bank as usial lined with Spectators we gave the…
(Al) [the strong ]. A bow which fell into the hands of Mahomet when the property of the Jews of Medina was confiscated. In the first battle the prophet drew it with such force that it…
A blunt arrow for shooting young rooks with a cross-bow; called “bolting rooks.” A gun would not do, and an arrow would mangle the little things too much. Source: Dictionary of Phrase…
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