It's used to fire arrows

Usage examples of bow.

The academician lowered himself to the ground and sat, disconsolate, his head bowed.

I know also that there is a power before which even academicism must bow, and to this power I look not unhopefully for support.

When Pahni and Bhapa bowed in acquiescence, he smiled crookedly and did the same.

The gypsy stopped abruptly, and turned an eye, in which menace vainly struggled with good-humour, upon each of his brethren, as they submissively bowed to him and his protege, and poured forth a profusion of promises, to which their admonitor did not even condescend to listen.

The gallant officers, now realizing for the first time that a girl--and a pretty one--was one of the passengers of the big aeroplane, waved their hats and bowed profoundly.

He bowed politely to the baroness, familiarly to Danglars, and affectionately to Monte Cristo.

The last blast caused a jam rise on the bow planes maybe blew some gases into the aft ballast tanks.

After a few moments the seeker saw the shape forming up ahead, the boxy bridge, the pointed bow, the tall central mast and the funnel aft, with the box of the hangar for the Dauphin helicopter and the flat helo-deck aft.

The dancers in the afterglow do not break rhythm, but do introduce a kind of bow into their prancing.

Frenchman, making one of his best bows, and playing gracefully with the aiguillettes that danced upon his breast, proceeded in courteous accents to deliver his mission.

We had turned northward in the night, rounding the lower tip of Alba, and I could see her green coastline lying off our starboard bow, hazy in the distance.

Seregil asked in a haughty, slightly nasal voice, giving Alec an elaborate bow.

Pausing to tune the harp, he snapped the string and, after a tense, whispered exchange with Alec, rose and bowed to the mayor.

Master Radly had included an oilskin bow case and a covered quiver in the price of the bow, to which Alec had added a score of arrows, linen twine and wax for bowstrings, and packets of red and white fletching.

Clutching his bow and quiver, Alec dropped and scrambled on his belly to the nearest trees.