bowyer

Definitions

1. A person who makes or sells bows (for use with arrows).
2. A surname originating as an occupation for someone who made bows for archery.
3. A person who uses the bow, an archer.
   archaic

Equivalents

Examples

“A clause of a former act directing the bowyers of London and Westminster to make⟳ four bows of different wood for one of yew, was repealed on their representation that the citizens of London would use⟳ none but yew bows, and in its place⟳ they were ordered always to have⟳ by them at least fifty bows of elm, witch-hasel, or ash.”

“Dr. Werthimer recalled that Dr. Bowyer and his wife, Jane Baker Bowyer, an education professor at nearby Mills College, had cultivated a Japanese garden in their backyard, “the most serene place⟳ you could imagine⟳,” and also attended Burning Man.”

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