bowyer
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of bowyer
1150–1200; Middle English bogiere, bouwyer, bouer; see bow 2, -yer
Example Sentences
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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 G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
It chanced that the opinion of the bowyer on this and other points differed from that of Long Ned of Widdington, a surly straw-bearded Yorkshireman, who had listened with a sneering face to his counsel.
From Sir Nigel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The four in front were their leaders: old Wat of Carlisle, Ned Widdington the red-headed Dalesman, the bald bowyer Bartholomew, and Samkin Alyward, newly rejoined after a week's absence.
From Sir Nigel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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 William Carew Hazlitt
Corroborating this, Mr. Compton relates that while working in Barnes's shop in Forest Grove, Oregon, during the last illness of that noted bowyer, he came across a laminated bow made entirely of sap wood.
From Hunting with the Bow and Arrow by Saxton Pope
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