Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryOne who shoots an arrow from a bow or a bolt from a crossbow. · The bishop in chess.
from Middle English archer, archere, from Old French archier, from Vulgar Latin *arcārius, alteration of arcuārius, from Latin arcus (“bow”). Displaced native Old English sċytta.
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