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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
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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