Associations to the word «Bowstring»

Wiktionary

BOWSTRING, noun. The string of an archer's bow.
BOWSTRING, noun. (historical) A string used by the Turks for strangling offenders.
BOWSTRING, verb. (transitive) to strangle with a bowstring

Dictionary definition

BOWSTRING, noun. The string of an archer's bow.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope