We are using cookies
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
Did you know?
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
Meanings of arrow slit in anglès
Opening in a wall from which missiles, such as arrows, were fired during sieges.
Sinònims
Examples for "loophole"
Examples for "loophole"
1
It was not: the Soviet dissidents exploited the loophole with great effect.
2
Police Minister Michael Woodhouse said he was not sure a loophole existed.
3
The infamous loophole surrounding so-called carried interest will be in the crosshairs.
4
The loophole that made the strategy possible was not closed until 2012.
5
This reversed the loophole whereby referees' reports could be open to interpretation.
1
Reddish bands of light from the arrow loops slash her face.
2
Arrow loops had been bricked up, no doubt to render tower rooms more snug in winter.
3
There were dark arrow loops in those wings that would allow archers to cover the door with crossfire.
4
The top of the wall was open, with a broad allure to stand on and merlons with arrow loops.
5
They docked at an elegant white marble gatehouse, with raised drawbridge and arrow loops bristling with wary elven archers.
Usage of arrow slit in anglès
1
From a second arrow slit, she caught a glimpse of the sea.
2
Petru looked up, to the arrow slit, to dawn's earliest light there.
3
The scrutator was aiming through an arrow slit with a borrowed crossbow.
4
The arrow slit was darkened, and half of a little bronze face appeared.
5
Through the opaque, beeswax cloth that blocked the arrow slit, the faintest of lights came.
6
She stared out another arrow slit.
7
This one was smaller than the others he'd gone through, more like an arrow slit than a true window.
8
A breeze flapped the beeswax-dipped cloth in the arrow slit, admitting a little light, making the room even colder.
9
Wicked knives decorated the walls while a ray of light from an arrow slit highlighted a display of tarnished shields.
10
Vlad looked around -outof the arrow slit to the Turkish firelight and the sound of axes; to the beams above.
11
He strode over to the bookcase next to the arrow slit and pulled out a binder in which absences were recorded.
12
Leaping up, Tobin looked out through an arrow slit and saw a heap of shattered stone and wood where the gates had been.
13
But this was a night shot, at two hundred paces, hilltop to hilltop, and he was aiming at candle flicker within an arrow slit.
14
He wondered if that window had at one time been several arrow slits.
15
The upper two had windows and balconies, the lower two only arrow slits.
16
There were no windows, except for the narrow arrow slits in the towers.