Arrowslitとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

arrow slit (複数形 arrow slits)

1. An embrasure; a hole through which arrows are shot.

   Synonym: arrow-hole

名詞

arrowslit (複数形 arrowslits)

1. A slit, as in a castle wall, through which arrows can be fired.
   • 1949, George Orwell, chapter 3, in Nineteen Eighty-Four‎^[1]:

     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.

同意語

• balistraria