"broad arrow" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "broad arrows",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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      "expansion": "broad arrow (plural broad arrows)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Heraldic charges",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 197",
          "text": "Their boats were manned by convicts, dressed in prison clothing, freely decorated with numbers and emblazoned all over with the ominous broad arrow.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "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."
      ],
      "hyponyms": [
        {
          "word": "pheon"
        }
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          "tang",
          "tang"
        ],
        [
          "barb",
          "barb"
        ],
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          "heraldry",
          "heraldry"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "broad arrow"
      ]
    }
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  "word": "broad arrow"
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    {
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      "tags": [
        "plural"
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    }
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    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "text": "Their boats were manned by convicts, dressed in prison clothing, freely decorated with numbers and emblazoned all over with the ominous broad arrow.",
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        }
      ],
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      ],
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          "heraldry"
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        "broad arrow"
      ]
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