Broadhead
a flat, triangular, steel arrowhead with sharp edges.
an arrow having such an arrowhead.
Historical Examples
Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, Vol. II, No. X., March 1851 Various
Woven with the Ship Cyrus Townsend Brady
The Dock and the Scaffold Unknown
The Pirates of Shan Harold Leland Goodwin
Woven with the Ship Cyrus Townsend Brady
The Pirates of Shan Harold Leland Goodwin
The Life of Florence Nightingale vol. 2 of 2 Edward Tyas Cook
A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States : From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 George Tobias Flom
Woven with the Ship Cyrus Townsend Brady
Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Alexander Philipp Maximilian, Prince of Wied
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