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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



... work placed at the salient angles of the glacis, communicating with the covert way.—Broad arrow. The royal mark for stores of every kind. (See BROAD ARROW.) ...
— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth
... Stingaree had never been a fool; but it was something more and rarer. Not content simply to follow the line of least resistance, he exhibited from the first a spirit and a philosophy unique indeed beneath the broad arrow. And so far from decreasing with the years of his captivity, these attractive qualities won him friend after friend among the officials, and privilege upon privilege at their hands, while amply justifying the romantic interest in ...
— Stingaree • E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung


Words linked to "Broad arrow" :   marker, marking, mark, arrow


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