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long⋅bow
[lawng-boh, long-] 
–noun
—Idiom| 1. | a large bow drawn by hand, as that used by English archers from the 12th to the 16th centuries. |
| 2. | draw the longbow, to exaggerate in telling stories; overstate something: He's sure to draw the longbow on the size of his catch of fish. |
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| long·bow (lông'bō', lŏng'-) n. A long, hand-drawn bow, such as that used in medieval England, which sometimes exceeded 6 feet (1.8 meters) in length. |
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Longbow
Long"bow`\, n. The ordinary bow, not mounted on a stock; -- so called in distinction from the crossbow when both were used as weapons of war. Also, sometimes, such a bow of about the height of a man, as distinguished from a much shorter one. To draw the longbow, to tell large stories.
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