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The viol, he argued, was in essence a bowed guitar, the result of a cross-fertilisation between the 15th-century Spanish plucked instrument known as the vihuela de mano and the medieval fiddle.

1988, Ian Woodfield, The Early History of the Viol, page 3

Heading over to the MacLeod Centre for some fresh air and a quick bowl of soup— forcing myself out of my little office, narrow work-self, out of the head-down attitude that I must finish what I;ve started — and turning the corner, I see a woman in a gold lame/ jacket and woollen hat with earflaps, playing some sort of stringed instrument in the sun. A bowed sultry, somebody says. 'A bowed what?' 'Psalter — as in psalm.'

2005, Ruth Burgess, Hay & Stardust: Resources for Christmas to Candlemas, page 216

The value 16/49 is evidently of importance as it corresponds to the first principal mode of vibration of a bowed string.

1918, C. V. Raman, On the Mechanical Theory of the Vibrations of Bowed Strings and of Musical Instruments of the Violin Family

Today, the behavior of bowed string instruments is reasonably well understood, and efficient synthesis algorithms allow us to reproduce most of the phenomena that appear in real instruments.

2007, Ken Greenebaum, Ronen Barzel, Audio Anecdotes III

The motion of a bowed string has interested physicists for many years, and much has been written on the subject.

2012, Neville H. Fletcher, Thomas D. Rossing, The Physics of Musical Instruments, page 45

[…] the deadly fight / At Sparta sing, that nigh / Kithairon’s heiglits was fought, whereby / The Persian host of bent-bowed archers came / To ruin; […]

1875, Thomas Charles Baring, transl., Pindar in English Rhyme; Being an Attempt to Render the Epinikian Odes, with the Principal Remaining Fragments, of Pindar, into English Rhymed Verse, London: Henry S. King & Co., page 91

Now some of our weak-bowed archers are using glass sights on their bows for 100-yard shooting.

1927, Ye Sylvan Archer, page 19

Apollo, augur, bright-bowed archer, well-loved / Music-master of the nine Muses, healer / Whose skill in medicine can ease the body’s / Ills and infirmities, / By thy affection for the Palatine altars / Prolong, we pray, the Roman State and Latium’s / Prosperity into future cycles, nobler / Eras, for evermore.

1963, James Michie, transl., The Odes of Horace: The Centennial Hymn, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., published 1965, →LCCN, pages 227–228

Say, is He Zeus? or perhaps He’s the silver-bowed archer Apollo?

1972, The Homeric Hymns and The Battle of the Frogs and the Mice, New York, N.Y.: Atheneum, page 56

My speed was like that of a light arrow easily shot by a firm-bowed archer—one trained, skillful, and experienced—across the shadow of a palmyra tree.

2012, Bhikkhu Bodhi, transl., The Numerical Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Aṅguttara Nikāya, Boston: Wisdom Publications, →ISBN, page 435

Replace any badly bowed studs, or fix a bowed stud by making a cut into the bowed area, forcing the stud straight, and bracing it with a 1x cleat (see the bottom illustration at right).

2002, Larry Haun, Vincent Laurence, Tim Snyder, Habitat for Humanity, how to Build a House, page 215