Bowing - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: bowingdown 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...
Bow hand
The hand that holds the bow i e the left hand...
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....
Fiddlestick
The bow strung with horsehair used in playing the fiddle a fiddle bow...
Longbow
The ordinary bow not mounted on a stock so called in distinction from the crossbow when both were used as weapons of war Also sometimes such a bow of about the height of a man as distinguished from a much shorter one...
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