bois d'arcn.

/bwa dark/

Forms: Also bow-dark, ‖ bodok.

Etymology: French, ‘wood of bow’.

North American.

The wood of the osage orange, used by American Indians for making bows.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > production and development of arms > [noun] > process in bow- or arrow-making > material for bows

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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > wood of fruit trees > others

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1805 J. Sibley in Deb. Congr. U.S. (1852) II. App. 1138 At this place Mr. Dunbar obtained one or two slips of the ‘bois d'arc’, (bow wood, or yellow wood).

1848 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms Bow-dark tree (Fr. bois d'arc), a western tree, the wood of which is used to make bows with.

1853 R. B. Marcy & G. B. McClellan Explor. Red River 98 The bows [of the Comanches] are made of the tough and elastic wood of the bois d'arc, or osage orange.

1858 Texas Almanac 69 The surface is rolling,..supplied with elm, ash..and especially bois d'arc.

1877 R. I. Dodge Hunting Grounds Great West 348 The best wood [for bows] is the Osage Orange (bois d'arc of the old French trappers, corrupted into ‘bow dark’ by plains Americans).

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	bois darc
释义	bois d'arcn. /bwa dark/ Forms: Also bow-dark, ‖ bodok. Etymology: French, ‘wood of bow’. North American. The wood of the osage orange, used by American Indians for making bows. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > production and development of arms > [noun] > process in bow- or arrow-making > material for bows yewOE bowstaff1436 bois d'arc1805 bow-wood1805 stave1891 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > wood of fruit trees > others service tree1545 cornel-wood1600 manchineel1683 bois d'arc1805 apple1815 crab-wood1849 peach wood1850 plum1902 persimmon1989 1805 J. Sibley in Deb. Congr. U.S. (1852) II. App. 1138 At this place Mr. Dunbar obtained one or two slips of the ‘bois d'arc’, (bow wood, or yellow wood). 1848 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms Bow-dark tree (Fr. bois d'arc), a western tree, the wood of which is used to make bows with. 1853 R. B. Marcy & G. B. McClellan Explor. Red River 98 The bows [of the Comanches] are made of the tough and elastic wood of the bois d'arc, or osage orange. 1858 Texas Almanac 69 The surface is rolling,..supplied with elm, ash..and especially bois d'arc. 1877 R. I. Dodge Hunting Grounds Great West 348 The best wood [for bows] is the Osage Orange (bois d'arc of the old French trappers, corrupted into ‘bow dark’ by plains Americans). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1805
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