Definitions
a sudden quick movement
Word origin
From Middle English dart, from Old French dart, dard (“dart”), from Medieval Latin dardus, from Frankish *darōþu (“dart, spear”), from Proto-Germanic *darōþuz (“dart, spear”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerh₃- (“to leap, spring”).
Used in a sentence
“Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.”
“The artful inquiry, whose venom′d dart / Scarce wounds the hearing while it stabs the heart.”
“Fighter aircraft also use restricted areas for target shooting at darts towed 1500 feet behind another aircraft.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Quick movement”4 letters
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