arrowslit

English

Etymology

arrow +‎ slit

Noun

arrowslit (plural arrowslits)

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

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