"broad arrow" meaning in All languages combined

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        "a metal arrowhead, comprising a tang and two barbs meeting at a point; used traditionally in heraldry, and later by the British government to mark government property and convict uniforms."
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        "(A stylized representation of) a metal arrowhead, comprising a tang and two barbs meeting at a point; used traditionally in heraldry, and later by the British government to mark government property and convict uniforms."
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          "ref": "1987, Les A[llan] Murray, “Aspects of Language and War on the Gloucester Road”, in The Daylight Moon, Manchester: Carcanet Press Limited, published 1988, page 85",
          "text": "A hard yarn twangs the tension and fires its broad arrow out of a grim space of Old Australian smells: toejam, tomato sauce, semen and dead singlets the solitary have called peace but which is really an unsurrendered trench.",
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        "(now chiefly historical) An arrow fitted with this arrowhead."
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