(a) A bow for shooting; longbow, crossbow; also, an arbalest; (b) ~ of brake, a kind of arbalest; ~ of vis, a kind of crossbow; pesed ~, a bow made up of pieces or sections; stele ~, a steel crossbow; Turke ~, Turkeis ~, a Turkish bow; (c) benden ~, bend a bow, draw back the bowstring; also, bend a longbow and attach the string; ~ and arwe(s, bow and arrow(s; boues shot, act of shooting a bow; drauen ~, draw back the bowstring; flan and ~, bow and arrow; unbenden ~, unstring (one's) bow; (d) at ~, within a bowshot, nearby; dog for the ~, dog trained to track game wounded by the bowmen; driven unto ~, drive (game) to the hunter; marked with Cupides ~, wounded by Cupid's arrow; (e) in pers. and place names: strong ~, strong bow, ?strong archer; ~ wod, a wood where bowstaves are obtained.

(a) ~ case, a case or covering for a bow; (b) ~ hous, case for a bow; (c) ~ shaue, a tool for shaping bows; (d) ~ staf, a length of a pole to be made into a longbow, bow-stave; (e) ~ steng, a bowstave; (f) ~ streng, string of a bow.

(a) ~ draught, the drawing of bows, archery; (b) ~ draught, the distance of a bowshot; also, the time; (c) ~ shot, the distance traveled by an arrow shot from a bow, a bow-shot; also, the time required for the flight of an arrow.

(a) ~ maker, a maker of bows; (b) ~ man, an archer, a hunter with a bow; (c) ~ sheter, an archer; (d) ~ stringer, a maker of bowstrings; (e) ~ wright, a maker of bows.

A bowman, an archer, a huntsman with a bow.

Something curved or bent: (a) a bend in a river or stream; -- often pl.; ~ lond, land within the bend of a river; (b) an arched or rounded place; ~ doun, bouesfel, a rounded hill; ~ nes, a rounded headland; ~ scale, hut on rounded place; ~ scarth, a pass, cleft, notch in the hills; (c) a rainbow; middenyardes ~, rainbow; (d) the arc traversed by the sun in the daytime; (e) a bend or bulge in the liver [prob. error for bouge].

Term for various man-made objects: (a) an arch of masonry [cp. stonboue]; (b) an arch of a bridge; an arched bridge; ~ brigge, a bridge with an arch (or arches); (c) ?an arched frame for building ships; (d) an ox yoke; (e) a saddlebow; (f) a folded document; (g) curved leg of a chair; (h) part of the apparatus for ringing a bell; (i) a bow or ornamental knot on a garment.