bowstring

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Pronunciation

• (GA) IPA: /ˈboʊstɹɪŋ/
• (RP) IPA: /ˈbəʊstɹɪŋ/

Noun

bowstring (plural bowstrings)

1. The string of an archer's bow.
2. (historical) The string of an archer's bow, as used by the Turks for strangling offenders.

Translations

• French: corde
• German: Bogensehne
• Portuguese: corda de arco
• Russian: тетива́
• Spanish: cuerda

Verb

bowstring (bowstrings, present participle bowstringing; past and past participle bowstrung)

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.

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