bowyer
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of bowyer
1150–1200; Middle English bogiere, bouwyer, bouer; see bow 2, -yer
Example Sentences
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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 John Aubrey
Where it is impossible to obtain yew, the amateur bowyer has a large variety of substitutes.
From Hunting with the Bow and Arrow by Saxton Pope
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
Black Simon found Aylward seated under the poop with his back, against Bartholomew the bowyer.
From Sir Nigel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"It is in my mind, John of Tuxford, that you have looked in the face more pots of mead than Frenchmen," said the old bowyer.
From Sir Nigel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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