Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A piece of hard wood, bone, ivory, or the like, at the front end of an arrow, to give weight and to serve for the attachment of the head.
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- noun The
front ,projecting part of an object, especially of anarrow or otherprojectile , on which thetip is attached
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Examples
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A mark A formed handle without a guard Rare short and heavy pointed We long to touch the hidden parts The foreshaft is the same barbed Watch for the additional impulse
Archive 2008-04-01 Lemon Hound 2008
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A mark A formed handle without a guard Rare short and heavy pointed We long to touch the hidden parts The foreshaft is the same barbed Watch for the additional impulse
Avant-lyric Lemon Hound 2008
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Japanese bamboo five-sixteenths of an inch in diameter, having a foreshaft of birch the same diameter and four inches long.
Hunting with the Bow and Arrow Saxton Pope 1900
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The larger end was now bound with a buckskin thong and drilled out for the depth of an inch and a half to receive the end of the foreshaft.
Hunting with the Bow and Arrow Saxton Pope 1900
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Drawn to the full length of an arrow, which was about twenty-six inches, exclusive of the foreshaft, his bow bent in a perfect arc slightly flattened at the handle.
Hunting with the Bow and Arrow Saxton Pope 1900
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The foreshaft was made of heavier wood, frequently mountain mahogany.
Hunting with the Bow and Arrow Saxton Pope 1900
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Once assembled, the foreshaft is jammed into a joint or hole on the "front" end of the shaft (opposite the fletching).
SurvivalBlog.com Rawles James Wesley 2010
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This replacement technology allows for the need to make and carry only a few shafts, which are labor intensive to make, while having multiple foreshaft sections to reload with.
SurvivalBlog.com Rawles James Wesley 2010
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The foreshaft (made of a short 3-4 inch piece of shaped hard wood) is attached to the stone or metal point with glue (or tree sap) and sinew.
SurvivalBlog.com Rawles James Wesley 2010
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All of the joints or areas on the shaft, foreshaft, and fletching that could spilt have to be reinforced with cordage or animal sinew.
SurvivalBlog.com Rawles James Wesley 2010
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