Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The cord attached to both ends of an archer's bow.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To furnish with a bowstring.
- To strangle with a bowstring.
- noun The string of a bow, by which it is drawn and the arrow discharged.
- noun A similar string used for strangling offenders in the Ottoman empire; hence, by metonymy, execution by strangling.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To strangle with a bowstring.
- noun The string of a bow.
- noun A string used by the Turks for strangling offenders.
- noun a bridge formed of an arch of timber or iron, often braced, the thrust of which is resisted by a tie forming a chord of the arch.
- noun an arched beam strengthened by a tie connecting its two ends.
- noun (Bot.) the tenacious fiber of the
Sanseviera Zeylanica , growing in India and Africa, from which bowstrings are made.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the
string of anarcher 'sbow - verb transitive to
strangle with a bowstring
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the string of an archer's bow
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Examples
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BINOCULAR STRAP A system that transfers the weight to your shoulders while still keeping binoculars readily available and out of the way of your bowstring is a must.
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Next tug the unsecured bowstring with your free hand and slip it on the other bow tip. then carefully detension the bow, being certain that the bowstring is square on the tips.
Does anyone have good directions or plans to make a home made bow stringer? 2009
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Next tug the unsecured bowstring with your free hand and slip it on the other bow tip. then carefully detension the bow, being certain that the bowstring is square on the tips.
Does anyone have good directions or plans to make a home made bow stringer? 2009
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For instance, if you have a short axle-to-axle bow, it's usually best to go with a string loop because the bowstring is typically drawn at too severe an angle to connect a release directly to it.
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Suddenly the note of a drawn bowstring is heard outside, something flashes past, there is a silence.
The Wood Carver's Wife Marjorie Lowry Christie 1922
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Turkish bowstring, which is amazingly strong, is formed of untwisted silk, generally white, bound together at intervals by threads of a different colour.
Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833 John Auldjo
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At the end of that period I had recovered, and all that remained from the effects of the bowstring was a slight wrinkling of the skin from distension, and the deep blue mark round my neck which I have just shown to your highness.
The Pacha of Many Tales Frederick Marryat 1820
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In Turkey, where the place, where the fortune, where the head itself are so insecure that scarcely any have died in their beds for ages, so that the bowstring is the natural death of bashaws, yet in no country is power and distinction (precarious enough, God knows, in all) sought for with such boundless avidity, -- as if the value of place was enhanced by the danger and insecurity of its tenure.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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Undoubtedly not more insane than the rest of us, but her self-control snapped like a bowstring which is overstrained.
The Dangerous Age Karin Micha��lis 1911
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But I just wish one was a "bowstring" and round a girl's neck.
Set in Silver 1901
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