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crossbow

[kraws-boh, kros-] / ˈkrɔsˌboʊ, ˈkrɒs- /


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In a description of a meeting involving Scales, Sevilla, Stallings and Grayson, parts of Grayson’s original email to Scales is passed along, including a reference to Busbice and his crossbow business.

From Salon • Sep. 18, 2025

On March 27, Benjamin Grayson, the deputy chief of staff at the Small Business Administration, sent an email to Samuel Scales, a United States Trade Representative staffer, concerning a Florida-based crossbow manufacturer, Barnett Crossbows.

From Salon • Sep. 18, 2025

He added: "While it is already illegal to carry a crossbow in public without reasonable excuse, we have been reviewing whether controls need to be strengthened further."

From BBC • Mar. 8, 2025

The boss of an indoor shooting range, which offers crossbow target shooting as one of its activities, said licencing crossbows or making them harder to buy would not affect his business.

From BBC • Mar. 8, 2025

Though, if truth be told, he did not want a crossbow.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin