Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. a sparrow [+ ref. to poem ‘Who Killed Cock Robin?’].

1953		J. Franklyn Cockney 293: ’Ullo – you arter them old bows and arrers again? They’ll fly away soon’s they see yeh!
1960, 1975		Wentworth & Flexner DAS 648/1: bows and arrows – sparrows.
1972		Dodson & Saczek Dict. of Cockney Rhy. Sl.
1998		R. Puxley Fresh Rabbit.
2002		B. Kirkpatrick Wicked Cockney Rhy. Sl.
2012		RSPB On Line 13 June 🌐 London used to be sparrow-rich [and] the birds had their own rhyming slang of ‘bow and arrow’.

2. a costermonger’s barrow.

2002

K. Lucas ‘All my life I’ve wanted to be a Barrow Boy’ in Obfuscation News Apr. Issue 20 🌐 Now suitably attired, though not as he would have wished, he went round to collect his Bow and Arrow, and he couldn’t Adam and Eve it!. The cart had been painted bright Purple.

3. a charabanc, a coach.

1998		R. Puxley Fresh Rabbit.
2002		B. Kirkpatrick Wicked Cockney Rhy. Sl.