bowstring

«bowstring» in Mova's school dictionary: the cord on a bow that is pulled back to shoot an arrow — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (bowstring, bowstrings)

meaning for a pupil

The bowstring is the cord on a bow that is pulled back to shoot an arrow. tree →

sense in the lessons

in old tales archers twang their bowstrings to send arrows flying

examples

• He pulled back the bowstring. tree →
• The archers twanged their bowstrings. tree →
• The bowstring snapped. tree →

note

nothing for maths

In the corpora

• For thou shalt make them turn their back, thou shalt make ready with thy bowstrings against the face of them.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «bowstring» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.