English English Dictionary

To make ready; to prepare; to dress.

To carouse; to bouse; to booze.

To pull or haul; as, to bowse upon a tack; to bowse away, i. e., to pull all together.

A carouse; a drinking bout; a booze.

The distance traversed by an arrow shot from a bow.

A large boom or spar, which projects over the stem of a ship or other vessel, to carry sail forward.

To drench; to soak; especially, to immerse (in water believed to have curative properties).

The string of a bow.

A string used by the Turks for strangling offenders.

To strangle with a bowstring.

Put to death with a bowstring; strangled.

Furnished with bowstring.

of Bowstring

of Bowstring

of Bowstring

See Boultel.

Onomatopoetic; as, the bowwow theory of language; a bowwow word.

An onomatopoetic name for a dog or its bark.

An archer; one who uses bow.

One who makes or sells bows.