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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The art, sport, or skill of shooting with a bow and arrow.
  2. n. The equipment of an archer.
  3. n. A group of archers.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The use of the bow and arrow; the practice, art, or skill of archers; the art of shooting with a bow and arrow.
  2. n. Archers collectively.
  3. n. In old law, a service of keeping a bow for the lord's defense.

Wiktionary

  1. n. uncountable The practice or sport of shooting arrows with a bow.
  2. n. countable A group of archers.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The use of the bow and arrows in battle, hunting, etc.; the art, practice, or skill of shooting with a bow and arrows.
  2. n. Archers, or bowmen, collectively.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the sport of shooting arrows with a bow

Etymologies

  1. From Old French archerie, from archier ("archer"). See archer. (Wiktionary)

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