LONGBOW, DRAWING (STRINGING, PULLING, SHOOTING, ETC.) A

exaggerating, telling improbable tales, sometimes in order to impress or surprise; going beyond the limits of truth. A longbow is a large powerful bow, sometimes over 6 feet (1.8m) long, drawn by the hand and used to shoot long, feathered arrows with great accuracy and range. Such bows were used by English archers as their principal weapon from the twelfth century until the invention of guns. It was said that a good archer could propel his arrow a mile and could shoot an arrow between the fingers of a man's hand at a considerable distance. The seemingly incredible tales told about longbow exploits, as those appearing in stories of the legendary English outlaw Robin Hood, gave rise to this expression.