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bowman

UK/ˈbəʊmən/US/ˈboʊmən/UK, US/ˈbaʊmən/

noun

What it means

  1. archeryA man who uses a bow; an archer.

    The whole londe ſhal fle, foꝛ the noyſe of the hoꝛſmen and bowmen: […]

    1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg]: [Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?], →OCLC, Jeremy [Jeremiah] iiij:[29], folio xxv, verso, column 2
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    The walls are slitted with embrasures through which bowmen could fire, indicating that the belfry also served as a stronghold during border skirmishes.

    1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 311, about the church at Pembridge

In a sentence

The whole londe ſhal fle, foꝛ the noyſe of the hoꝛſmen and bowmen: […]

1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg]: [Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?], →OCLC, Jeremy [Jeremiah] iiij:[29], folio xxv, verso, column 2

Where it comes from

  1. Middle Englishboweman
  2. Englishbowman

From Middle English boweman, bouman, boughman, equivalent to bow + -man.

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