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toxophilite

adj
/tɒkˈsɒfɪlʌɪt/

Etymology

From Toxophilus, the title of a 1545 book by Roger Ascham intended to mean ‘lover of the bow’, from Ancient Greek τόξον (tóxon, “bow”) + φίλος (phílos, “love”); equivalent to τόξον (tóxon) + -philite.

Definitions

  1. Pertaining to archery.

  2. Someone keen on or an expert at archery

    Someone keen on or an expert at archery; a lover or practitioner of archery.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for toxophilite. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA