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Definition of "bowman" [bow•man]

  • An archer. (noun)
  • A person who oars, rows, or paddles at the bow of a boat. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "bowman" in a sentence
  • "But the bowman was a muscular seaman of fifty, and he won the victory over the billows, and hauled the man into the cutter."
  • "– that not a prince, not a charioteer, not a bowman was there to join his hand with mine?"
  • ""This man Aylward the bowman was my friend, and it is the nature that God has given me to love my friends even as I hate my foes."