Broad Arrow

Fed up with the lack of performance, and hopeless reliability, we managed to replace the 875cc all-aluminium slant four with a 24 litre broad-arrow 12 cylinder Napier Sea Lion engine from an old torpedo boat we had at the bottom of the garden. ❋ Peter Ashley (2008)

These were the “broad-arrow” trees, reserved by the king of England for the making of sailing masts. ❋ Janine M. Benyus (1989)

They are seen as small V-shaped markings which are dark in tint; and perhaps might better be described as resembling our Government's "broad-arrow," the central line representing the end of a single canal which enters the caret centrally. ❋ Mark Wicks (N/A)

After a severe combat he had been able to clap the government broad-arrow upon every package and carry them all off to the nearest customs 'post. ❋ Samuel Rutherford Crockett (N/A)

I inquired; and picking up a piece of stick I drew a broad-arrow upon the path. ❋ Jeffery Farnol (1915)

Firstly, there is the stigma that attaches to every man who has worn the broad-arrow. ❋ James Leslie Allan Kayll (1908)

He is given a uniform coarse in texture clumsy and grotesque in appearance and branded over with the broad-arrow and with his prison number. ❋ James Leslie Allan Kayll (1908)

There, on the coarse grey material of the coat, was a large broad-arrow. ❋ Various (1880)

As my eyes rested on the broad-arrow I understood it all. ❋ Various (1880)

He had observed the sign of an anchor, or broad-arrow, cut into a tree with a stone tomahawk, and which he supposed had been done, either by a shipwrecked sailor, or by a runaway convict from Moreton ❋ Ludwig Leichhardt (1830)

"I have all the particulars in writing," continued the good man, "and the necessary documents; and his identity was easy to be proved by the mark of the broad-arrow imprinted on his shoulder by old Adams." ❋ Frederick Marryat (1820)

It had the broad-arrow on it, and a custom-house officer seeing it, some time after, was disposed to seize it as a prize. ❋ James Fenimore Cooper (1820)