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arrowslits

arrowslits is the plural of arrowslit.

Meaning of arrowslit

Noun

arrowslit (plural arrowslits)

  1. A slit, as in a castle wall, through which arrows can be fired.
    • When they met in the church tower the gaps in their fragmentary conversation were filled up. […] They sat talking for hours on the dusty, twig-littered floor, one or other of them getting up from time to time to cast a glance through the arrowslits and make sure that no one was coming.1949, George Orwell, chapter 3, in Nineteen Eighty-Four

Questions about arrowslits

What is arrowslits the plural of?
Arrowslits is the plural of arrowslit.

Words near arrowslits in the dictionary

  1. arrows of love
  2. arrows of time
  3. Arrowsic
  4. Arrowsic Island
  5. arrowslit
  6. arrowslits
  7. arrowsmith
  8. arrowsmiths
  9. arrowstone
  10. arrowstones
  11. arrowtail

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