Definition of "dart"

Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.

1769, Oxford Standard Text, “King James Bible”, in 2 Samuel, xviii, 14

The artful inquiry, whose venom′d dart / Scarce wounds the hearing while it stabs the heart.

1830, Hannah More, Sensibility: The Works of Hannah More, volume 1, page 38

The Tigers will also face Jesse Hogan, still smarting from missing a couple of games but not life inside the AFL bubble, where you can’t even light up a dart at a music festival without someone filming it and sending it to the six o’clock news.

2017, April 18, Craig Little, The Guardian, Hawthorn are not the only ones finding that things can get worse

Fighter aircraft also use restricted areas for target shooting at darts towed 1500 feet behind another aircraft.

1988, Michigan Aviation, volumes 21-25, page 62

Trucking′s my dart too.

1947, Norman Lindsay, Halfway to Anywhere, published 1970, page 79

Six minutes later Cueto went over for his second try after the recalled Mike Tindall found him with a perfectly-timed pass, before Ashton went on another dart, this time down his opposite wing, only for his speculative pass inside to be ruled forward.

2011 September 24, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 67-3 Romania”, in BBC Sport‎

Somehow she managed, with a cinched waist here and a few darts there, to look like a Hollywood star.

2013, “Nadia Popova”, in The Economist‎

Pan came, and ask'd, what magic caus'd my ſmart, / Or what ill eyes malignant glances dart?

1717, Alexander Pope, “Autumn. The Third Pastoral. […]”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], page 28

Yossarian responded to the thought by slipping away stealthily from the police and almost tripped over the feet of a burly woman of forty hastening across the intersection guiltily, darting furtive, vindictive glances behind her toward a woman of eighty with thick, bandaged ankles doddering after her in a losing pursuit.

1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Eternal City”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, page 432

By half-time, it was almost a surprise that the away side had restricted themselves to only one more goal. Messi, again, was prominently involved, darting past Fernando and then Zabaleta.

2015 February 24, Daniel Taylor, “Luis Suárez strikes twice as Barcelona teach Manchester City a lesson”, in The Guardian (London)‎

The impressive Frenchman drove forward with purpose down the right before cutting infield and darting in between Vassiriki Diaby and Koscielny.

2010 December 29, Mark Vesty, “Wigan 2 - 2 Arsenal”, in BBC‎