Shaped like or resembling an arrow in appearance, typically long and pointed.
From 'arrow' (Old English 'earh') combined with 'like' (Old English 'lich' meaning similar). The compound emerged in Middle English to describe objects with arrow-shaped characteristics.
This word shows how English creates descriptive adjectives by simply adding 'like' to nouns—a pattern so productive that we barely notice it, yet it lets us describe almost anything by comparing it to something else.
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