Bowstring is valid Scrabble Word

Is bowstring a scrabble word?
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9 letters word
15 points in Scrabble
18 points in WWF

Definitions for BOWSTRING in dictionary:

VERB:

to strangle with a bowstring
strangle with a bowstring (a former Turkish method of execution).
To strangle with a bowstring.

NOUN:

the string of a bow
The string of a bow.
A string used by the Turks for strangling offenders.
the string of an archer\'s bow
the string of an archer's bow, traditionally made of three strands of hemp.
string of an archer's bow

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

a waxed or sized cord joining the ends of a shooting bow

string of an archer\'s bow

Words related to BOWSTRING

bowstringed18 bowstringing19 bowstrings16 bowstrung15

Words that contain BOWSTRING

bowstrings16 bowstringed18 bowstringing19

How to use BOWSTRING in a sentence

In many countries nerves are still as tense as a bowstring, and the language of hatred still prevails.
His old strength seemed to come back to him, and, drawing the bowstring to his ear, he sped the arrow out of the open casement.
He one night resolved to poison the queen and in the morning to put Zadig to death by the bowstring.
Here he grasped me by the arm, in such wise as made me believe I was about to have my head thrust through a bowstring.
Oh, we know the use of a bow-string as well as any Turk amongst them.
The bow-string was the least he could expect when the khan came to know of the trick we had played him.
The heroine originally had to speak two lines with a bowstring round her neck.
This stranger, too, my governess, this professor, bring also for the professor a bowstring, and a two-bladed knife! All Canada shall rejoice to hear of it.
While she was threatening to slay more champions, she was pierced through by an arrow from the bowstring of Thorkill, a native of Tellemark.
Once more was I preparing, sore chagrined, To draw the bowstring, when the ravenous beast Glaring around espied me, lashed his sides With his huge tail, and opened war at once.

The Austrians having taken Belgrade some time after, they opened his grave and carried off his skull and shroud, as well as the bow-string, as relics.
I then, with the object of destroying them, fixed on my bow-string the weapon capable of piercing the foes if but his sound was inaudible.
This son of Pritha, called Vibhatsu, is foremost in drawing the bow-string.
And taking her feet of red soles, bearing auspicious marks, the twins began to press them gently with their hands, scarred by the bow-string.
When he drew the bow-string taut, Out of sight and quick as thought Up it went, the blue air cleaving.
Sever two locks of hair for my sake now, Spoil those bright coils of power, give me your hair, And with my mother twist those locks together Into a bowstring for me.
From some known examples, C varies from 1500 to 1800 for iron braced parallel or bowstring girders, and from 1200 to 1500 for similar girders of steel.
One of them takes his stand close to the foot of the pole, fits an arrow on his bowstring, aims steadily, and shoots straight up.
A cloud of horse swept down on them, each man riding loose with his hand on a taut bowstring.
Then he unstrung one end of a bowstring, twisted it once round the stick, and strung it again.
I should have loved to give him a bowstring instead, with somebody who knew how to operate it.
So Thrasymedes whipped him with his bowstring till he was tired, and they did not leave off beating the beggar till he ceased howling and fell, all bleeding, and lay still.
Pritchard, the heroine of the piece, was to be strangled on the stage, and was to speak two lines with the bow-string around her neck.
O monarch, it is, indeed difficult to hide the marks of the bowstring on my arms.
Alas, that Dhananjaya the twang of whose bow-string and the sound of whose leathern fences made every foe tremble, now entertains only gladdened women with his songs.
And Vibhatsu slew the steeds of Karna by means of sharp and tough arrows shot from the bow-string drawn to the ear, and deprived of life they dropped down on the ground.
I fail to see when thou takest up thy excellent arrows, when thou fixest them on the bow-string, and when thou lettest them off.
Promptly he put an arrow to his bowstring and took deft aim.
Pritchard, the heroine of the piece, was to be strangled upon the stage, and was to speak two lines with the bowstring round her neck.
The bow-string holding the stick made it whirl in the hole beneath.
When we wanted to fire the gun the bowstring was drawn back, and held by slipping it into the notch, and a nail was laid in the channel with its head against the bowstring.
Then, on pulling the trigger, the bowstring was lifted out of the notch, and sent the nail off sailing.
Professor Keeler told us to tighten this bowstring until the distance from the wire to the cross stick at the center was equal to one-tenth of the length of the stick.

Similar words containing BOWSTR without suffix ing

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