Crossword-Solution: NOCKS 5 letters, 8 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

The archers stood in groups about the decks, new-stringing their bows, and testing that they were firm at the nocks.

For we were nursed upon the self-same hill, Fed the same flock by fountain, shade, and rill: Together both, ere the high lawns appeared Under the opening eyelids of the Morn, We drove a-field, and both together heard What time the grey-fly winds her sultry horn, Battening our nocks with the fresh dews of night, Oft till the star that rose at evening bright Toward heaven’s descent had sloped his westering wheel.

Each drew his string from its waterproof case and bent the huge arc of his war-bow as he fitted it into the nocks.

Having read this and determined to try the experiment of dextrous shooting, I constructed a dozen light arrows having wide nocks and flattened rear ends so they might be fingered quickly.

The center of the bow is the handle or hand grip; the extremities are the tips, usually finished with notches cut in the wood or surmounted by horn, bone, sinew, wooden or metal caps called nocks.