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birdbolt

noun

Etymology

From bird + bolt.

  1. derived from *bʰūs-✻
  2. derived from *buzdô✻
  3. derived from bulter
  4. derived from bulten
  5. compounded as birdbolt — “bird + bolt”

Definitions

  1. A short blunt arrow for killing birds without piercing them.

  2. Anything that smites without penetrating.

    • To be generous, / guiltless and of free disposition, is to take those / things for bird-bolts that you deem cannon-bullets:

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