King's mark
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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One of the most common etchings in the New Forest is a broad arrow head known as "the King's Mark" used to identify trees reserved for building Royal Navy ships, the NPA said.
From BBC
But if the Night King's mark nullified that magic when Bran crossed back over, it's a whole different ball game.
From Time
The N.B.A. game then was quite different from the one Carmelo Anthony toyed with while breaking King’s mark with 62 points in Friday night’s victory against Charlotte.
From New York Times
Being of the royal impis, they wore the great white headdresses and carried shields with the king's mark emblazoned48 thereon.
From Project Gutenberg
That some of these dealers in old metals, notoriously keep men employed in knocking the broad Arrow, or King's mark, out of the copper-bolts, nails, and bar iron, whereon it is impressed, and also in cutting such bar iron into portable lengths, after which it is sold to the great dealers, who supply the Public Boards; and who are in some instances supposed by this means to sell the same Article to these boards even two or three times over.
From Project Gutenberg
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