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  • noun Plural form of bowyer.

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Examples

  • Or so the bowyers, fletchers, stringers and arrowhead makers claimed in their petition.

    Internet Gambling: No Mere Roll Of The Dice Reuven Brenner 2010

  • The invaders began sorting through the men, pulling aside those with trades: smiths, bowyers, fletchers, bakers, brewers, butchers, millers, carpenters -- anyone of a craft or trade who might be put to use.

    Temple of the Winds Goodkind, Terry 1997

  • 'We need to kill their arrow makers and fletchers, bowyers and blacksmiths, all the craftsmen who can make and repair bows, arrows, and other weapons.

    Stone of Tears Goodkind, Terry 1995

  • The tendency for specialization would make very rapid progress, and it is easy to see how at a very early date and in the most primitive communities there would be bowyers, arrow-makers, and leather-dressers, and how various kinds of artificers would arise, supplying the wants of the community in some special line, and receiving from the community all the commodities which they required apart from those which they produced themselves.

    The Unity of Civilization Various

  • Oregon, and later he went into the Cascade Mountains and cut yew staves with an idea of selling them to the English bowyers.

    Hunting with the Bow and Arrow Saxton Pope 1900

  • Thus, St. George protected the armourers; St. Mary and St. Thomas the Martyr, the bowyers; St. Catharine the Virgin, the haberdashers; St. Martin, the sadlers; the Virgin Mary, the cloth-workers, and so on.

    As We Are and As We May Be Walter Besant 1868

  • Thus, in the way of Mackenzie's '_Man of Feeling_,' we become fragmentary where we fear to be tedious; and so, in a good historic epoch, among the wars of the Roses, surrounded by friars and nuns, outlaws and border-riders, chivalrous knights and sturdy bowyers, consign I to the oblivescent firm of Capulet and Co. my happily destroyed '_Prior of Marrick_.'

    An Author's Mind : The Book of Title-pages Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849

  • Thus, in the way of Mackenzie's '_Man of Feeling_,' we become fragmentary where we fear to be tedious; and so, in a good historic epoch, among the wars of the Roses, surrounded by friars and nuns, outlaws and border-riders, chivalrous knights and sturdy bowyers, consign I to the oblivescent firm of Capulet and Co. my happily destroyed '_Prior of Marrick_.'

    The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849

  • Fletchers and bowyers, drawers and sawyers, note: First printed in 1614.

    Room for Company 1614

  • The convention draws together most of the state's premier bowyers, equipment dealers and outfitters from Alaska, Canada and Africa.

    greatfallstribune.com - Local News 2009

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