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gburgmommy asked:


Is it “arching,” “archering,” or something succinct like that? Or is it just, “shooting some bows and arrows”? It seems so clumsy, somehow, to say that mouthful every time!
By “archery” I mean the sport of shooting with bows and arrows at a target.

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Taha T asked:


Archery is a noun. One who performs archery is an archer. But what is the verb for actually PERFORMING archery? Would it be “to arch”?

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thegirlwitharidiculouslylongname asked:


For example, ‘keep it under your hat’ comes from archers keeping spare strings dry under their hats.
How did they originate?

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