Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
the sport of shooting arrows with a bow;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Archery \Arch"er*y\, n. [OE. archerie.]
1. The use of the bow and arrows in battle, hunting, etc.;
the art, practice, or skill of shooting with a bow and
arrows.
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2. Archers, or bowmen, collectively.
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Let all our archery fall off
In wings of shot a-both sides of the van. --Webster
(1607).
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
archery
n 1: the sport of shooting arrows with a bow
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
23 Moby Thesaurus words for "archery":
artillery, ballistics, casting, chucking, firing, flinging,
gunnery, heaving, hurling, jaculation, lobbing, missilery,
musketry, pitching, projection, rocketry, shooting, skeet,
skeet shooting, slinging, throwing, trajection, trapshooting