bowstring
About 0.17 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun The string of an archer's bow.
- noun The string of an archer's bow, as used by the Turks for strangling offenders.
- verb To strangle with a bowstring.
Similar words
sinew bowstringer bowstring knot warbow composite bow bowstring bridge footbow shortbow bow and arrow selfbow
Often followed by
and is girder truss was to of with trusses
Word family
bowstrings
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