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bowstring

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9 lettersPronunciation /ˈboʊ.stɹɪŋ/Part of speech nounSorted bginorstwStarts with BEnds with G0 clues
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Definitions

  1. the string of an archer's bow

Word origin

From bow + string.

Used in a sentence

  • For an instant he glanced along the polished shaft, drawing the bowstring far back, that the arrow might pierce through the heart for which it was aimed.
  • 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.
  • 1909, O. Henry (William Sydney Porter), A Municipal Report I have seen (on one of my imaginary tours) the Sultan of Turkey bowstring with his own hands one of his wives who had uncovered her face in public.

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