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Cheff or Chief Question?
Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2003 12:14 am
by Padrig
I was wondering how many arrows are in a cheff or chief?
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Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2003 4:10 am
by Robert of Canterbury
Do you mean a sheaf of arrows? (pl Sheaves)
a score, 24, 50? How long is a piece of string?
Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2003 10:35 am
by Padrig
Sorry, English not being my first language I didnt know that sheaf was a generic term and even that cheff or chieff meant sheaf. I read something in AAMK were they said archers were issued this and I was wondering how many it meant.
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Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2003 11:13 am
by Halvgrimr
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Padrig:
<B>I was wondering how many arrows are in a cheff or chief?
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Depends on wheter or not Chef is in his armour I suppose
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sorry Bob, it has to be said
Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2003 10:40 pm
by Yoshida
score
a traditional unit of quantity equal to 20. The score, like the dozen, helps us describe a moderate number of objects. This is one of the many cases in which English has two words for similar concepts, one word from the Old French spoken in 1066 by the Norman conquerors of England and one from the Old English spoken by the Anglo-Saxon people they conquered. In this case, dozen is the French word and score is the Old English word, derived from the Norse word skor meaning a notch cut in a stick as a tally mark. The suffix -score can be added to a number, as in threescore (60) or fivescore (100).
Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2003 3:11 am
by Friedrich
24
While arrows were commonly bulk stored in barrels particularly in castles, archers were issued a sheaf of arrows as their first "issued" ammo. From complete pieces and fragments from the English Ship Mary Rose, they found that the leather end spacers (to keep the arrows seperated in the cloth arrow bags) had 24 holes in them.
Gwen from Historic Enterprises offers a version of this bag with 12 holes which does a better job keeping the fletchings apart and not squashed flat.
FvH
Wolfe Argent
Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2003 7:43 pm
by Padrig