bow and arrow

1. 1.

   a weapon consisting of arrows and the bow to shoot them

   Broaderweapon

   Partsarrowbow

Questions about bow and arrow

What does bow and arrow mean?

bow and arrow means "a weapon consisting of arrows and the bow to shoot them".

Is bow and arrow a common word?

bow and arrow is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.