arrowslit

English

Etymology

arrow +‎ slit

Noun

arrowslit (plural arrowslits)

1. A slit, as in a castle wall, through which arrows can be fired.
   • 1949, George Orwell, chapter 3, in Nineteen Eighty-Four‎^[1]:

     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.

Synonyms

• balistraria

Translations

Translations

• Albanian: frëngji (sq) f
• Galician: seteira f
• German: Schießscharte (de) f
• Hebrew: חֲרַךְ יְרִי (he) m (khárakh yeri)
• Italian: arciera (it) f
• Japanese: 狭間 (ja) (hazama)
• Portuguese: seteira (pt) f
• Spanish: aspillera (es)
• Walloon: airtchire (wa) f