bowstring
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EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈboʊstɹɪŋ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbəʊstɹɪŋ/
- Hyphenation: bow‧string
NounEdit
bowstring (plural bowstrings)
- The string of an archer's bow.
- (historical) The string of an archer's bow, as used by the Turks for strangling offenders.
Derived termsEdit
- (string of an archer's bow): bowstring bridge, bowstring girder, bowstring hemp
TranslationsEdit
string of an archer's bow
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VerbEdit
bowstring (third-person singular simple present bowstrings, present participle bowstringing, simple past and past participle bowstrung or bowstringed)
- (transitive) To strangle with a bowstring.
- 1850, Edgar Allan Poe, "The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade":
- When the day broke […] it was high time for her to get up and be bowstrung—a thing very little more pleasant than hanging, only a trifle more genteel.
- 1850, Edgar Allan Poe, "The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade":