"fairy dart" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "name": "Archery",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1886, Longman's Magazine, page 194",
          "text": "Hence, by having a fairy dart in your possession, you can defy the fairies, or can even turn them from active enemies into powerful friends and personal patrons. This curious property makes the stone arrowhead a most valuable charm ...",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1969, Joseph Jacobs, Alfred Trübner Nutt, Arthur Robinson Wright, William Crooke, Folklore",
          "text": "The shape is believed to have been derived from its being originally the mounting of an elf-shot or fairy dart, i.e. flint arrowhead. An old man in Kincardineshire […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1918, Folklore Society (Great Britain), Publications",
          "text": "Cattle are shot with stones and can only be cured by a \"fairy dart\" or ancient stone arrowhead. These objects are kept in numerous wrappings by every properly qualified \"fairy doctor,\" who rub[s] them on the sick beasts with appropriate charms ...",
          "type": "quotation"
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      "glosses": [
        "A prehistoric stone arrowhead; an elf arrow."
      ],
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          "arrowhead",
          "arrowhead"
        ],
        [
          "elf arrow",
          "elf arrow"
        ]
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        "(archaeology) A prehistoric stone arrowhead; an elf arrow."
      ],
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        "archaeology",
        "history",
        "human-sciences",
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  "word": "fairy dart"
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        "en:Archaeology",
        "en:Archery"
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          "ref": "1886, Longman's Magazine, page 194",
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        },
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          "ref": "1969, Joseph Jacobs, Alfred Trübner Nutt, Arthur Robinson Wright, William Crooke, Folklore",
          "text": "The shape is believed to have been derived from its being originally the mounting of an elf-shot or fairy dart, i.e. flint arrowhead. An old man in Kincardineshire […]",
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          "ref": "1918, Folklore Society (Great Britain), Publications",
          "text": "Cattle are shot with stones and can only be cured by a \"fairy dart\" or ancient stone arrowhead. These objects are kept in numerous wrappings by every properly qualified \"fairy doctor,\" who rub[s] them on the sick beasts with appropriate charms ...",
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        "(archaeology) A prehistoric stone arrowhead; an elf arrow."
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