How To Use Bowstring In A Sentence
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They are worn to protect the arm from the bowstring as it moves forward after the release.
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The women are very expert at platting, which is usually done with three threads of sinew; if greater strength is required, several of these are twisted slackly together, as in the bowstrings.
Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 2
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At the end of that period I had recovered, and all that remained from the effects of the bowstring was a slight wrinkling of the skin from distension, and the deep blue mark round my neck which I have just shown to your highness.
The Pacha of Many Tales
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Success attended him, and the pacha, his predecessor, having in his opinion, as well as in that of the sultan, remained an unusual time in office, by an accusation enforced by a thousand purses of gold, he was enabled to produce a bowstring for his benefactor; and the sultan's "firmaun" appointed him to the vacant pachalik.
The Pacha of Many Tales
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He placed it perfectly in the bow drawing the bowstring.
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For example, bowstrings were easily split, spear shafts easily broken and use of the arquebus often dictated by the weather.
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Slip the loop of the bowstring over the nock and down the limb of the bow and tie the free end of the string to the other nock using a timber hitch, bowline or similar non-stressing knot.
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Her body went as taut as a bowstring.
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The Viking's huge muscles were nearly as taut as the bowstring itself as he strained in bringing it back into firing position.
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The centre lever is depressed to set the trigger, then the rope is looped around the bowstring and locked into the jaw.
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Her body went as taut as a bowstring.
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The arrow dropped to the ground next to him, the bowstring twanging up in Cinaed's face, causing the swordsman-in-training to drop the weapon and stumble back, cursing vividly.
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Sure enough, the echoing twang of a bowstring sounded.
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[- 24 -] And they would have perished utterly, but for the fact that some of the pikes of the barbarians were bent and others were broken, while the bowstrings snapped under the constant shooting, the missiles were all discharged, every sword blunted, and, chief of all, that the men themselves grew weary of the slaughter.
Dio's Rome, Volume 2 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus; and Now Presented in English Form. Second Volume Extant Books 36-44 (B.C.
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I had visions of hearing the thrum of the tense bowstring as I unleashed an arrow at an archery target.
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The archers drew back their bowstrings and took aim at the horde as it slowly inched forward.
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Next tug the unsecured bowstring with your free hand and slip it on the other bow tip. then carefully detension the bow, being certain that the bowstring is square on the tips.
Does anyone have good directions or plans to make a home made bow stringer?
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The arrow was released from the bowstring with a sharp hiss, and streaked off.
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Suddenly the note of a drawn bowstring is heard outside, something flashes past, there is a silence.
The Wood Carver's Wife
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Split the bowstring strands at the marked location in line with the bow.
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She unstrung it and put the bowstring in a pouch at her belt, and found a quiver and arrows with black fletching.
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And all I had to use for a bowstring was some cotton twine.
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A forked nock suitable for trackless crossbows can be made by enlarging the fork of a plastic arrow nock with a file or a heated metal rod to fit around the larger diameter of crossbow bowstrings.
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Celil was suddenly thrust back into reality from her daydream by the bellow of a war-horn, screeches and roars, and the twang of bowstrings.
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The bowstring should have enough twists to keep the string round.
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He had begun to poke his head up to fire at the balcony when a green flash sliced through horns, bridle, and stock, the taut bowstring and fragments of bow whipping back to gouge his arm.
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But I just wish one was a "bowstring" and round a girl's neck.
Set in Silver
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The first bowstring is a very heavy and very long one so the bow can be strung just by slipping the long string on without flexing the bow.
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Some accounts of the battle say that the English archers had kept their flax bowstrings dry by putting them under their helmets as it had been raining the day before.
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Suddenly the twang of a bowstring rang out and the cloak fell to the floor.
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His hazel eyes were full of misery, his strong, beautiful young body was as taut as a bowstring.
NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
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People were building recurves of different lengths, and when someone would break a bowstring, he often wouldn't be able to find one to fit.
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This bowstring material is precision twisted with a smooth wax finish.
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Always use the manufacturer's recommended number of strands in the bowstring for the draw weight of the bow.
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Whatever we think, we are courtiers in an oriental Sultanate, and there is a corps of janissaries, with bowstrings at the ready, at the palace door.
Murdoch 'a megalomaniac twister'
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These include cactus, succulents, sansevieria, also known as bowstring hemp, and yucca, none of which is suitable for bathrooms.
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Slip the loop of the bowstring over the nock and down the limb of the bow and tie the free end of the string to the other nock using a timber hitch, bowline or similar non-stressing knot.
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You can guess, however, that all this warring of rifles and bowstrings, this influx of overlording whites, had made game wilder and hunters fearful of being hunted.
The Land of Little Rain
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BINOCULAR STRAP A system that transfers the weight to your shoulders while still keeping binoculars readily available and out of the way of your bowstring is a must.
Stalking Monster Mule Deer in Montana by Bill Heavey
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Mark the location of the grip on the bowstring and unstring the bow.
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He threw himself onto the ground as the meadow was filled with the twang of many bowstrings.
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Success attended him, and the pacha, his predecessor, having in his opinion, as well as in that of the sultan, remained an unusual time in office, by an accusation enforced by a thousand purses of gold, he was enabled to produce a bowstring for his benefactor; and the sultan's "firman" appointed him to the vacant pachalik.
The Pacha of Many Tales
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Undoubtedly not more insane than the rest of us, but her self-control snapped like a bowstring which is overstrained.
The Dangerous Age
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I shall find it a mistake when I come to be bowstringed, or hanged, or shot, or something of that kind," said the tutor; "but, Jack, my dear boy, I depend upon you to pull me through.
Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series
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The easiest way of doing this is to have a ‘Tiller stick’ and a pair of bowstrings.
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Bowstrings twanged and rifles cracked as the volley flew into the army.
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In Turkey, where the place, where the fortune, where the head itself are so insecure that scarcely any have died in their beds for ages, so that the bowstring is the natural death of bashaws, yet in no country is power and distinction (precarious enough, God knows, in all) sought for with such boundless avidity, -- as if the value of place was enhanced by the danger and insecurity of its tenure.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12)
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I pulled the quiver from my shoulder and pressed the white button on the bow that sent the bowstring from one end to the other in less than a second to protect from hand shock.
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The arrow should be placed in the centre of the bowstring with the shaft resting on the bow just above your handgrip.
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As they paddle, they hear the twang of bowstrings and arrows begin to fall around them.
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When it was fixed on the bowstring and pulled back, the arrow left the string with nothing pushing it.
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Avienda slid into a fighting crouch and Birgitte nocked an arrow to her bowstring.
Trial of Seven
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After a moment of tense silence, the bowstring twanged.
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She unstrung it and put the bowstring in a pouch at her belt, and found a quiver and arrows with black fletching.
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He reached for an arrow and nocked it on the bowstring.
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His hazel eyes were full of misery, his strong, beautiful young body was as taut as a bowstring.
NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
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Serving the string is the process of rolling the bowstring in other thread to protect it around those areas where it receives most wear, namely around both bow nocks and where the arrow nock rests on the string.
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A horizontal V-shaped strut overhangs the old balustrade, suspended from a series of steel bowstring arches.
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She replaced the bowstring on her crossbow, having broken it earlier by catching it on the sheath of her sword.
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The main reason for this is that, at the instant when the arrow leaves the bowstring, parts of the bow itself are moving.
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Her body went as taut as a bowstring.
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To release the arrow correctly, the fingers holding the bowstring must allow the string to slip off the fingers.
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I would recommend that all archers, of whatever discipline, should learn to make and serve bowstrings, and set up and fletch arrows.
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Arlan chuckled, but then stiffened as he heard the twang of a bowstring, and he ducked, jerking Cora down with him.
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I bit my lip in concentration and drew an arrow, pulling the bowstring taut.
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He threw himself onto the ground as the meadow was filled with the twang of many bowstrings.
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Turkish bowstring, which is amazingly strong, is formed of untwisted silk, generally white, bound together at intervals by threads of a different colour.
Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833
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The French first sent forward Genoese mercenary crossbowmen, whose weapons, their bowstrings slackened by a shower of rain, proved no match for the English longbows.
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He regrets that this admirable man did blind his only son and have three brothers bowstringed
The Great Round World And What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 22, April 8, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls
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The centre lever is depressed to set the trigger, then the rope is looped around the bowstring and locked into the jaw.
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the bowstring was twanging
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A forked nock suitable for trackless crossbows can be made by enlarging the fork of a plastic arrow nock with a file or a heated metal rod to fit around the larger diameter of crossbow bowstrings.
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I would recommend that all archers, of whatever discipline, should learn to make and serve bowstrings, and set up and fletch arrows.
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For instance, if you have a short axle-to-axle bow, it's usually best to go with a string loop because the bowstring is typically drawn at too severe an angle to connect a release directly to it.
How and Why to Custom Fit Your Mechanical Release
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Mark the location of the grip on the bowstring and unstring the bow.
