butt shaft

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   a blunt arrow without a barb; an arrow used for target practice

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Questions about butt shaft

What does butt shaft mean?

butt shaft means "a blunt arrow without a barb; an arrow used for target practice".

Is butt shaft a common word?

butt shaft 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.