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Definition of Bowbent
1. a. Bent, like a bow.
Definition of Bowbent
1. Adjective. bent, like a bow ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bowbent
1. bent like a bow [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bowbent
Literary usage of Bowbent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII by John Sherren Brewer, Robert Henry Brodie, James Gairdner (1902)
"Towns on the south side of bowbent water along the foot of the hills of the ...
Towns standing betwixt bowbent water and Warke castle along the Dry March ..."
2. The Annals of the English Bible by Christopher Anderson (1845)
"Yesterday, in the morning, sending the horsemen along the waters of Kaile and
bowbent, (Bowmont,) they ..."
3. Specimens of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices, and by Thomas Campbell (1853)
"Even the mendicant, bowbent with age, that on the old gray stone, Sole sitting,
suns him in the public way, Feels his heart leap, and to himself he sings. ..."
4. Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions by Robert Chambers (1847)
"... bowbent with age, that on the old gray »tone, Sole sitting, suns him in the
public way. Feels his heart leap, and to himself he sings. ..."
5. Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions by Robert Carruthers (1849)
"Even the mendicant, bowbent with age, that on the old gray stone, Sole sitting,
suns him in the public way, Feels his heart leap, and to himself he sings. ..."
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