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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bowstring/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in old tales archers twang their bowstrings to send arrows flying

### examples

- He pulled back the bowstring. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bowstring/#x1)
- The archers twanged their bowstrings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bowstring/#x2)
- The bowstring snapped. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bowstring/#x3)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.305/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bowstring» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bowstring/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.