" arrow "

[Noun]  | "ar*row" | \ ˈer-(ˌ)ō \

1: a missile shot from a bow and usually having a slender shaft, a pointed head, and feathers at the butt

2: something shaped like an arrow; especially : a mark (as on a map or signboard) to indicate direction

3: a painful or damaging experience or occurrence that is likened to being shot with an arrow

Origin: before 12th century ;

 Middle English arwe, arowe, going back to Old English earh (strong noun, probably neuter), arwe, arewe (weak feminine noun), going back to Germanic *arhwō- "arrow," presumably originally an adjectival derivative "belonging to the bow" (whence also Old Icelandic ǫr, genitive ǫrvar "arrow," and, with an additional suffix, Gothic arhwazna), going back to dialectal Indo-European *arkw- "bow," whence also Latin arcus "bow, rainbow, arch";

  * Note : See the Oxford English Dictionary, third edition, for details of the Old and Middle English developments. The editors point out that earh is a rare poetic word, occurring mainly in the compound earhfaru "flight of arrows," the more usual older words for "arrow" being strǣl and flā; the popularity of arwe in later Old English prose may have resulted from influence of the Old Norse word. — The etymon *arkw- "bow" (*h2erkw- if *a is excluded as a possible vowel) has been compared with various names for plants, as Greek árkeuthos "juniper (Juniperus macrocarpa)," Russian rakíta (for *rokíta by vowel reduction) "the willow Salix fragilis," Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian ràkita "osier (Salix viminalis)" (both from Slavic *orkyta), Latvian ẽrcis "juniper." The presumed connection would be from the use of wood from these small trees as material for bows, though this is questionable (especially in the case of willows). In any case both sets of words appear to be of substratal origin.;

[Noun]  | "arrow worm" 

1: any of a phylum (Chaetognatha) of small planktonic wormlike marine organisms having curved bristles on either side of the head for seizing prey

Origin: 1859 ;

[Noun]  | "back arrow" 

1: back button

Origin: 1980 ;

[Noun]  | "broad arrow" 

1: an arrow with a flat barbed head

2: a mark shaped like a broad arrow that identifies government property including clothing formerly worn by convicts

Origin: 14th century ;

[Noun]  | "straight arrow" 

1: a person who lives by rigidly proper or conventional standards

Origin: 1956 ;

 From the expression straight as an arrow;

[Noun]  | "poison dart frog" 

1: any of several small brightly colored frogs (family Dendrobatidae) of tropical Central and South America that produce poisonous secretions sometimes used by native peoples to poison dart or arrow tips —called also poison arrow frog

Origin: 1968 ;

[Verb]  | "arrow" 

1: to move fast and straight like an arrow in flight

2: to hit or throw (something) toward a target fast and straight like an arrow

3: to shoot (an animal) with an arrow

Origin: 1827 ;

 Derivative of {see: |arrow:1|arrow:1};

[Geographical name]  | "Bro*ken Ar*row" | \ ˈbrō-kən-ˈer-ō \

1: city in northeastern Oklahoma southeast of Tulsa population 98,850

[Verb]  | "arrow" 

[Noun]  | "straight arrow"