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birdbolt
noun 2
Definitions
noun
1
A short blunt arrow for killing birds without piercing them.
2
Anything that smites without penetrating.
To be generous, / guiltless and of free disposition, is to take those / things for bird-bolts that you deem cannon-bullets:
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