Etymology
Origin of arrowy
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With a no-nonsense, arrowy skating style, Eldredge is intensely competitive, drilling hard all the time.
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In qualifying rounds there were never such long, arrowy liners from the tee.
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He had grovelled like a blind grub in the dust and darkness—now he was soaring in arrowy gleams upon wings of light.
From John Ames, Native Commissioner A Romance of the Matabele Rising by Bertram Mitford
A White Horse, like a foaming wave, Dashed forward 'mong the foremost brave, And swift as is the silver light, He arrowy clear'd his way, And cut the mass as clouds a ray.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various
Only the arrowy silver of the Fretta's bow-waves showed that the element through which they fled was water and not air.
From Shadows of Flames A Novel by Amélie Rives
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