Brewer's: Bolted Arrow

A blunt arrow for shooting young rooks with a cross-bow; called “bolting rooks.” A gun would not do, and an arrow would mangle the little things too much.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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