Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he took threedarts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.
Any sharp-pointed missile weapon, such as an arrow.
(sometimes figurative) Anything resembling such a missile; something that pierces or wounds like such a weapon.
1830,Hannah More,Sensibility: The Works of Hannah More, volume 1,page38:
The artful inquiry, whose venom′ddart / Scarce wounds the hearing while it stabs the heart.
The Tigers will also face Jesse Hogan, still smarting from missing a couple of games but not life inside the AFL bubble, where you can’t even light up adart at a music festival without someone filming it and sending it to the six o’clock news.
(military) A dart-shaped target towed behind an aircraft to train shooters.
1988,Michigan Aviation, volumes21-25, page62:
Fighter aircraft also use restricted areas for target shooting atdarts towed 1500 feet behind another aircraft.
Soon as I felt the floor tremor I made adart for the door of the building.
2011 September 24, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 67-3 Romania”, inBBC Sport[1]:
Six minutes later Cueto went over for his second try after the recalled Mike Tindall found him with a perfectly-timed pass, before Ashton went on anotherdart, this time down his opposite wing, only for his speculative pass inside to be ruled forward.
Yossarian responded to the thought by slipping away stealthily from the police and almost tripped over the feet of a burly woman of forty hastening across the intersection guiltily,darting furtive, vindictive glances behind her toward a woman of eighty with thick, bandaged ankles doddering after her in a losing pursuit.
They had todart the animal to get close enough to help
(intransitive) To fly or pass swiftly, like a dart; to move rapidly in one direction; to shoot out quickly.
The flying mandarted eastward.
(intransitive) To start and run with speed; to shoot rapidly along.
The deerdarted from the thicket.
2015 February 24, Daniel Taylor, “Luis Suárez strikes twice as Barcelona teach Manchester City a lesson”, inThe Guardian (London)[3]:
By half-time, it was almost a surprise that the away side had restricted themselves to only one more goal. Messi, again, was prominently involved,darting past Fernando and then Zabaleta.
2010 December 29, Mark Vesty, “Wigan 2 - 2 Arsenal”, inBBC[4]:
The impressive Frenchman drove forward with purpose down the right before cutting infield anddarting in between Vassiriki Diaby and Koscielny.
