The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bow hand
Bow hand \Bow" hand`\
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(Archery) The hand that holds the bow, i. e., the left hand.
Surely he shoots wide on the bow hand.
--Spenser. (Mus.) The hand that draws the bow, i. e., the right hand.
Usage examples of "bow hand".
There, she turned her left side to the oncoming men and extracted two more arrows from her case, clenching them with the fingers of her bow hand.
The ash of a shaft drawn across my bow hand slipped from its notch, slimy with gore and tissue.
Fiona shifted the quiver to her bow hand in order to press a fist against her heart.
I had done the same thing on key shots in archery tournaments: lifted my bow hand just as the shot went.
Hans's long fingers gripped two arrows with his bow hand, and had another nocked.