Refers to bows and arrows as weapons, often in historical or literary contexts. Can also broadly mean arms or weaponry.
Metonymic use for a person who fights with a bow, or a warrior in general. Rare and literary.
Refers to fighting with bows and arrows, or by extension, warfare itself. Literary and historical.
Bows and arrows were scattered across the ancient battlefield.
He was acclaimed as the greatest archer of his time.
After several exchanges of archery fire, they finally made peace.