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bowyer|ˈbəʊɪə(r)|
Forms: 3 bowiare, 5 bowȝere, bowyere, 6 boier, bowier, 7 boweyer, 6– bowyer.
[f. bow n. + -yer: cf. lawyer.]
1. One who makes, or trades in, bows.
1297R. Glouc. 541 The bowiares ssoppe hii breke & the bowes nome ech on. c1440Promp. Parv. 46 Bowȝere [1499 bowyere], arcuarius. 1514Fitzherb. Justyce Peas (1538) 92 Every boier make..two bowes of elme. 1544R. Ascham Toxoph. (Arb.) 20 No man will be offended—excepte it be summe fletchers and bowiers. 1697View Penal Laws 8 Concerning Bowyers and the making and keeping of Bows. 1862Marsh Eng. Lang. xii. 182 The arrow-makers, or fletchers..had as full a vocabulary as the bowyers.
2. A bowman, an archer. Also attrib.
c1440Promp. Parv. 46/1 Bowȝere..architenens. 1725Pope Odyss. viii. 260 Who boldly durst defy the Bowyer God. 1808Scott Marm. ii. xv, His Norman bowyer band. 1870Bryant Iliad I. v. 156 The bowyer-god, Apollo. |