toxophilite

He says you get a better class of toxophilite there."

He was a member of the Royal Toxophilite Society.

The late toxophilite, whose family jewels you tenderised so splendidly, would have liked Petal.

"And that reminds me, what's a toxophilite?"

"I'll go and thumb-tie the toxophilite."

The noun "toxophilite", meaning "a lover or devotee of archery, an archer", is derived from it.

Two days later, on Goodwood Cup day, he finished third to the easy winner Toxophilite in a £200 Sweepstakes.

The Toxophilite Society is founded at Leicester Square, London.

Beadsman took the lead inside the final furlong and won comfortably by a length from Toxophilite with The Hadji staying on strongly for third.

Fitz-Roland soon weakened and Toxophilite looked the likely winner until Wells produced Beadsman with a challenge inside the last quarter mile.

The Royal Toxophilite Society, Archery, (Part 5)

A person practicing archery is called an archer, and one who enjoys or is an expert at archery is sometimes called a toxophilite.

Beadsman was settled just behind the leaders and turned into the straight in fourth place behind Fitz-Roland, Toxophilite and Eclipse.

It later becomes the Royal Toxophilite Society in 1787 and then the Grand National Archery Society.

The bowyers are also involved in the sport of archery and give awards and medals each year at the Royal Toxophilite Society and school competitions.

He was a member of the Royal Toxophilite Society, which had grounds in Regent Park in London (tennis courts occupy the site today).

A wall tablet to William Wood, a noted archer who died in 1691 and whose memorial at the end of the south aisle was restored by the Toxophilite Society in 1791.

A person who participates in archery is typically known as an "archer" or "bowman", and one who is fond of or an expert at archery can be referred to as a "toxophilite".