draw weight
nounEtymology From draw + weight.
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Archery, Government, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Martial arts, Military, Politics, Sports, War The force (weight) required to draw a bow to its fully-cocked position.
- The enormous draw weight of the English longbow required archers to train from a very young age to be capable of using it.
- She figured her bow had only a forty-pound draw weight, but it was enough.2021, Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland, #Merky Books, page 27:
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Ball games, Curling, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports The force (weight) of delivering a stone required for it to come to rest in the house (to draw).