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Broad arrow   /brɔd ˈæroʊ/   Listen
Broad arrow

noun
1.
An arrowhead mark identifying British government property.
2.
A mark shaped like an arrowhead; used to mark convicts' clothing.
3.
An arrow with a wide barbed head.






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"Broad arrow" Quotes from Famous Books



... the V parted at the fork, each angle divided and subdivided into two, so that where one broad arrow-head had been, were four diamonds. The anti-aircraft guns were staining the evening skies brown and white till the attacking squadrons came gliding like tiny flies into the disturbed area, ...
— Tam O' The Scoots • Edgar Wallace

... large tree, are a large arrow at 1 o'clock and L facing the west, and on the other gumtree, a few feet north-east, is the letter E of large dimensions; facing the opposite way or east we dug round the tree but could find nothing deposited; saw the remains of broken bottles and fancied from the broad arrow being pointed upwards that a document in a small bottle might have been suspended high up in the tree and got at by the natives, but on after consideration I took the meaning of the arrow being up that up the river was his course; we saw the traces of his horses at the marked trees, ...
— McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia • John McKinlay

... of that loving sympathy which the Army extends even to the vilest, to those from whom the least puritanical of us would shrink. It shows such men that they are not utterly lost, as these believe; that it, at any rate, does not mark them with a figurative broad arrow and consign them to a separate division of society; that it is able to give them back the self-respect without which mankind is lower than the beast, and to place them, regenerated, upon a path that, if it be steep and ...
— Regeneration • H. Rider Haggard



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