longbowstringmaker

noun

A manufacturer of strings for longbows.

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Meanings

nounlongbowstringmaker (plural longbowstringmakers)

plural longbowstringmakers

  1. A manufacturer of strings for longbows.

    1968, James Edwin Oxley, Worshipful Company of Fletchers, The Fletchers and Longbowstringmakers of London (See title.)

    2 more examples

    […] a nautically-inclined 'potekary', longbowstringmaker and taverner.

    2003, Geoffrey Vaughn Scammell, Seafaring, Sailors and Trade, 1450-1750, page 108

    Although he was apprenticed to a longbowstringmaker, he evidently earned his living as a wiredrawer.

    2008, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register

Origin

From longbow + string + maker.

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