bowstring definizione dal dizionario inglese italiano

Definizione monolingua

bowstring

bowstring (third-person singular simple present bowstrings, present participle bowstringing, simple past and past participle bowstrung or bowstringed)

1. (transitive) to strangle with a bowstring
   • 1850, Edgar Allan Poe, ""The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade"":

     When the day broke ... it was high time for her to get up and be bowstrung—a thing very little more pleasant than hanging, only a trifle more genteel.

bowstring (plural bowstrings)

1. the string of an archers bow

Definizione dizionario bowstring

cavo

Altri significati:

(transitive) to strangle with a bowstring

the string of an archer's bow

string from a bow