nock

Example Sentences

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“I nock an arrow in my bow,” you say.

From Salon • Jan. 21, 2014

You press the trigger and flip the wand back to nock an arrow, then point an aiming reticle at the target.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 19, 2010

Of the 3,000,000 Armenians in the Middle East, Cardinal Agagianian's Catholic nock numbers a mere 100,000.

From Time Magazine Archive

Most of them could nock five or six arrows at once.

From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan

Every Thursday afternoon, after the last serious arrow had been shot, they were allowed to fit one more nock to their strings and to shoot the arrow straight up into the air.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White