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shedao (practice) – The Chinese and Taiwanese practice of archery; shooting glove (equipment) – Protective gear for an archer's fingers; siderod (equipment) – A stabilizer mounted to point toward the rear of the bow, positioned slightly to one side of the bow; sometimes called a back bar, though that term is also used for the siderod ...
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Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows. [1] The word comes from the Latin arcus, meaning bow. [2] Historically, archery has been used ...
A shooter, armed with a Remington Model 870 shotgun as her primary weapon and firing a Glock pistol as her sidearm. In many contemporary armies, the issue of a sidearm in the form of a service pistol is a clear sign of authority and is the mark of a commissioned officer or senior NCO.
Para-archery classification is the classification system for para-archery used to create a level playing field for archers with a different range of disabilities. Governance in the sport is through the International Archery Federation. Early classification systems for the sport were created during the 1940s and based on medical classification.
Connecting rod, main, coupling, or side rod, in a reciprocating engine; Control rod, used to control the rate of fission in a nuclear reactor; Divining rod, two rods believed by some to find water in a practice known as dowsing; Fishing rod, a tool used to catch fish, like a long pole with a hook on the end
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A bodkin point arrowhead. A bodkin point is a type of arrowhead.In its simplest form it is an uncomplicated squared metal spike, and was used extensively during the Middle Ages.