Bow Hand - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: bow handBow hand
The hand that holds the bow i e the left hand...
down bow
a downward stroke from the heel to the tip of the bow in bowing a stringed instrument Contrasted with up bow when the bow is moved in the opposite direction...
Bow pen
Bow compasses carrying a drawing pen See Bow compass...
Bow bells
The bells of Bow Church in London cockneydom...
Bowing
The act or art of managing the bow in playing on stringed instruments...
Bow pencil
Bow compasses one leg of which carries a pencil...
Bow-bearer
Bow-bearer, an under-officer of the forest whose duty it was to oversee and true inquisition make, as well of sworn men as unsworn, in every bailiwick of the forest; and of all manner of trespasses done, either to vert or venison, and cause them to be presented without any concealment, in the next Court of attachment, etc., Crompt. Juris. 201...
Steel-bow goods
Steel-bow goods, corn cattle, straw, and implements of husbandry, let or delivered by a landlord to a tenant, by which the tenant is enabled to stock and work a farm; in consideration of which he becomes bound to return Articles, equal in quantity and quality, at the expiration of the lease, Bell's Scots Law Dict....
Red hand
Having hands red with blood in the very act as if with red or bloody hands said of a person taken in the act of homicide hence fresh from the commission of crime as he was taken red hand or red handed...
clean hands
clean hands : innocence of wrongdoing or deceit [plaintiff must come into court with clean hands] see also clean hands doctrine ...
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