Definition of "archer" []

• One that shoots with a bow and arrow. (noun)

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• "The archer is not responsible; instead he has channeled spirituality in a manner ignorant of the confines of his self, and indifferent to the external effect."
• "From a laudable desire to assert the dignity of his theme, Procopius defends the soldiers of his own time against the morose critics, who confined that respectable name to the heavy-armed warriors of antiquity, and maliciously observed, that the word archer is introduced by Homer 8 as a term of contempt."
• "The second movement was called the archer because it separated the arms in a bow-stretching action."