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fairy dart

fairy dart noun: a prehistoric stone arrowhead; an elf arrow.

Noun

fairy dart (plural fairy darts)

  1. A prehistoric stone arrowhead; an elf arrow.
    • Hence, by having a fairy dart in your possession, you can defy the fairies, or can even turn them from active enemies into powerful friends and personal patrons. This curious property makes the stone arrowhead a most valuable charm ...1886, Longman's Magazine, page 194
    • The shape is believed to have been derived from its being originally the mounting of an elf-shot or fairy dart, i.e. flint arrowhead. An old man in Kincardineshire […]1969, Joseph Jacobs, Alfred Trübner Nutt, Arthur Robinson Wright, William Crooke, Folklore

Forms of fairy dart

pluralfairy darts

Questions about fairy dart

What does fairy dart mean?
Fairy dart means a prehistoric stone arrowhead; an elf arrow.
What part of speech is fairy dart?
Fairy dart is a noun.
What is the plural of fairy dart?
The plural of fairy dart is fairy darts.

Words near fairy dart in the dictionary

  1. fairy comments
  2. fairy cycle
  3. fairy cycles
  4. fairy dance
  5. fairy dances
  6. fairy dart
  7. fairy darts
  8. Fairy Dell
  9. fairy door
  10. fairy doors
  11. fairy dust

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