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Meaning of bowhuntress | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

A female bowhunter.

Examples

“Mrs. Florence Pace, Cornell bowhuntress, found a way to beat the current meat shortage.”
“One doesn’t read too many stories in the magazine written by these gals that hunt with the bow, but these bowhuntresses must have some interesting tales that would make good reading material.”
“They [the prizes] are: […] 4, for first bowhuntress to bring deer to Kaibab Lodge desk clerk, a dozen Blackhawk arrows.”
“Bowhuntress Jenny Candahl Levels An Arrow At The Target”
“Euretha Schomaker of Detroit was Michigan’s first successful bowhuntress.”
“SLEEPING BEAUTY—Maybe this pretty bowhuntress can find an alarm clock and a rear view mirror at the Central Michigan Sport and Boat Show to help her improve her hunting.”
“One of the episodes of The Michigan Sportsman follows a lady bowhunter on her first deer hunt. “Misadventures of a Bowhuntress” features Mr. and Mrs. Dick Wilson of Kalamazoo.”
“Abilene women took all three places in Class B bowhuntress, Shirley Adkisson taking first, Gladys Bowman second and Fran Blackstock third.”
“Bowhuntress Scores / Petite, Dale Gross, of 645 Chestnut St., Emmaus, showed the boys how it is done when she dropped a 60-pound doe with one arrow at 8:30 a.m. on opening day.”
“The prize-winning doe, a 116-pounder, was tagged by Frank DeSessa of Morris Plains, while the bowhuntress award was garnered by Tony Ann Lenza of Lyndhurst — an 11-year-old gal who bagged the doe with a single arrow at 30 yards.”
““We’ll also have our traditional bowhuntress and junior bowhunter awards programs for the 1985 season as well,” [Len] Cardinale added.”
“An easy walking trail wends among lofty pines through avenues of sheer, intoxicating color around a 20-acre lake garnished here and there with classical statues, like the bowhuntress Artemis, the houndsman Actaeon and the beautiful young mother Daphne with child beside her.”
“Hunting magazines often dub [Jana] Waller a “bowhuntress,” although she’s handy with a rifle and rod, too.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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