bowyer

American  

[boh-yer] / ˈboʊ yər /

noun

1. a maker or seller of archers' bows.

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bowyer British  

/ ˈbəʊjə /

noun

1. a person who makes or sells archery bows

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Etymology

Origin of bowyer

1150–1200; Middle English bogiere, bouwyer, bouer; see bow ², -yer

Example Sentences

The clarke lop't it to make money of it to some bowyer or fletcher, and that lopping kill'd it: the dead trunke remaines there still.

From The Natural History of Wiltshire by Aubrey, John

Bateman of Kendal gave us Kendal green, And Sharpe of Leeds sharp arrows for us made: At Rotheram dwelt our bowyer, God him bless; Jackson he hight, his bows did never miss.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by Hazlitt, William Carew

A score of rough voices joined at once in the quarrel, some upholding the bowyer and others taking the part of the North Countryman.

From Sir Nigel by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

My father was killed when I was three years old, and my mother brought me to Bertha, the wife of Giles the bowyer, who had been her nurse in childhood.

From St. George for England by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

"He will buy a monopoly of cudgels to deprive us of their use," cried a bowyer.

From The Star-Chamber, Volume 1 An Historical Romance by Ainsworth, William Harrison