arrow

1. (intransitive) To move swiftly and directly (like an arrow).Examples: "Above his head, a startled bird arrows up, into the sun."intransitive

2. (transitive) To let fly swiftly and directly.Examples: "Jermain Defoe dinked in an equaliser and Gareth Bale hit the crossbar for the hosts before Elliott Bennett arrowed in Norwich's winner."transitive

3. (intransitive, botany, of a sugar cane plant) To develop an inflorescence.Examples: "The more vigorous and luxuriant the vegetation of a field of canes, the less will the tendency to flowering be shewn; whereas nearly all the canes will be found to arrow if the soil be poor and the vegetation meagre."; "In some sugar cane countries efforts are made to harvest the cane crops before the period of arrowing, and in Barbados it is thought that a considerable loss occurs in the yield of sugar if the harvest be delayed and only completed through the arrowing season."; "It is easily grown and arrows freely. It appears to be of moderate merit only, but might be cautiously tried on a small scale."intransitive

4. (computing, intransitive) To navigate using the arrow keys.Examples: "Arrow left until you reach the start of the text you want to delete."intransitive

5. (Singapore, Singlish, transitive, originally military slang) To single out or nominate (someone) to be responsible for something, especially an undesirable task.Examples: "Just because I never come for meeting … my boss arrow me to do this job."SingaporeSinglishtransitive

1. (obsolete) Contraction of ever a (sometimes used with a redundant a or an).Examples: "though he hath lived here this many years, I don't believe there is arrow a servant in the house ever saw the colour of his money."abbreviationalt-ofcontractionobsolete