Definition of "war-bow" [war-bow]

• In archery, a bow for use in war. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "In his right hand he held the war-bow and in his left the ankh, for life and death were his to dispense."
• "No one here seems to know the composition of this electrum wire that binds the stock of the war-bow that this man is making for me. '"
• "Ailnoth had passed by in the evening like a black arrow from a war-bow, so blind, so deaf that he had neither seen Brother Cadfael nor heard his greeting, called clearly into a brazen frost that rang like bells."