Definition of Bowstringed

1. p.a. Furnished with bowstring.

Definition of Bowstringed

1. Verb. (past of bowstring) ¹

2. Adjective. Supplied or fitted with a bowstring. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bowstringed

1. bowstring [v] - See also: bowstring

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bowstringed

bowshocks
bowshot
bowshots
bowsing
bowsman
bowsmen
bowsprit
bowsprits
bowspritted
bowssen
bowssened
bowssening
bowssens
bowstring
bowstring hemp
bowstringed (current term)
bowstringing
bowstrings
bowstrung
bowtel
bowtels
bowtie
bowtied
bowties
bowwow
bowwowed
bowwowing
bowwows
bowyang
bowyangs

Literary usage of Bowstringed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1855)
"The Crimea was partly lost by the abandonment of the Turkish commanders, who were bowstringed when they came home, by order of the Sultan. ..."

2. Garrick and His Circle by Florence Mary Wilson Parsons (1906)
"He took especial pains to make her read the letter naturally as Lady Macbeth. All but bowstringed as Johnson's Irene, she was, the robust Doctor remarked, ..."

3. The London Magazine by John Scott, John Taylor (1825)
"We become wearied of the tyrant of the day; and, like the Grand Turk, he is deposed, or bowstringed, to make way for a new tyrant and a successor. ..."

4. The Comic Almanack: An Ephemeris in Jest and Earnest, Containing Merry Tales by William Makepeace Thackeray, Albert Smith, Gilbert Abbott À Beckett, Horace Mayhew (1853)
"The Examiner bowstringed the Queen's English, and strangled common-sense. And as for Punch, it was a damp squib—that was fizzing, or attempting to fizz, ..."

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