Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Furnished with bowstring.
- adjective Put to death with a bowstring; strangled.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
bowstring . - adjective Supplied or fitted with a
bowstring .
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Examples
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He regrets that this admirable man did blind his only son and have three brothers bowstringed
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"I shall find it a mistake when I come to be bowstringed, or hanged, or shot, or something of that kind," said the tutor; "but, Jack, my dear boy, I depend upon you to pull me through."
Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series Bracebridge Hemyng 1871
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