dart
/dɑɹt/ noun B2- A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; for example, a short lance or javelin.
- Any sharp-pointed missile weapon, such as an arrow.
- Anything resembling such a missile; something that pierces or wounds like such a weapon.
- A small object with a pointed tip at one end and feathers at the other, which is thrown at a target in the game of darts.
- A concave quadrilateral similar in shape to a chevron or arrowhead.
- A dart-shaped target towed behind an aircraft to train shooters.
- A sudden or fast movement. · Soon as I felt the floor tremor I made a dart for the door.
- A fold that is stitched on a garment.
Plural darts
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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And, lastly, the Owl, seeing an archer approach, predicted that this man, being on foot, would contrive darts armed with feathers which would fly faster than the wings of the Birds themselves.
Then, again, why should he leave the girl in the street and dart away to commit a felony?”
We should get the big fish, but the smaller would dart right and left out of the net.
At the moment when she is struggling in the convulsions of death, a vulture is flying by (there are a good many vultures in Adelmonte’s country); this bird darts on the dead fowl, and carries it away to a rock, where it dines off its prey.
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