arrowslit

English

Etymology

From arrow +‎ slit.

Noun

arrowslit (plural arrowslits)

  1. A slit, as in a castle wall, through which arrows can be fired.
    Alternative form: arrow slit
    Synonyms: arrow-hole, loophole, balistraria
    • 1949 June 8, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 3, in Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC; republished [Australia]: Project Gutenberg of Australia, August 2001:
      When they met in the church tower the gaps in their fragmentary conversation were filled up. […] They sat talking for hours on the dusty, twig-littered floor, one or other of them getting up from time to time to cast a glance through the arrowslits and make sure that no one was coming.

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