NOUN
- an arrowhead mark identifying British government property
- a mark shaped like an arrowhead; used to mark convicts' clothing
- an arrow with a wide barbed head
How To Use broad arrow In A Sentence
- “The crest is a Stag couchant, vulnerated through the neck by a broad arrow; on his side is a Martlett for a difference.” Kenilworth
- The mail was of finest rings of steel sewn upon soft doeskin, fitted so closely that there was no room for gambison or jerkin; and though it might have stopped a broad arrow or turned the edge of a blade, a sharp dagger could have made a wound beneath it, and against a blow it afforded less protection than a woollen cloak. Via Crucis
- Recent finds include copper pins marked with the broad arrow of the Admiralty, copper sheathing, pan weights, musket balls, cannonballs and a sounding lead.
