Crossword clues for bowyer
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bowyer \Bow"yer\, n. [From Bow, like lawyer from law.]
An archer; one who uses bow.
One who makes or sells bows.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"maker of bows," attested late 12c. as a surname, from bow (n.1) + -yer.\n
Wiktionary
n. 1 A person who makes or sells bows (for use with arrows). 2 (context archaic English) A person who uses the bow, an archer.
Wikipedia
A bowyer is someone who makes bows. Bows are used for hunting and for archery. The development of gunpowder and muskets slowly led to the replacement of bows as weapons of war which decreased the importance of bowyers.
Bowyer is an English surname, taken from the traditional craftsman name bowyer, a maker of bows. Notable people with the surname include:
- Adrian Bowyer, British engineer and mathematician
- Bernadette Bowyer, Canadian field hockey player
- Bertram Bowyer, 2nd Baron Denham, British politician
- Clint Bowyer, American racing driver
- Charles Stuart Bowyer, astronomer
- Frank Bowyer, English footballer
- George Edward Wentworth Bowyer, 1st Baron Denham, British politician
- Ian Bowyer, English footballer
- Kevin Bowyer, English organist
- Lee Bowyer, English footballer
- Ruth Bowyer, a convict set to Australia on the First Fleet
- Walt Bowyer, American football player
- William Bowyer (printer), British printer
- William Bowyer (1663-1737), British printer, father of the above William Bowyer
- William Bowyer (artist), English artist and RA
Category:English-language surnames
A bowyer is a person who makes bows.
Bowyer may also refer to:
Places:
- Bowyer Butte, Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica
- Bowyer Island, British Columbia, Canada
- Bowyer, an accepted name for Whitby, West Virginia, before 1919
- Fort Bowyer, Alabama, a US Army fortification twice fought over in the War of 1812
Other uses:
- Bowyer (surname), a list of people
- Bowyer Sparke (1759–1836), English bishop
- Bowyer baronets, five baronetcies created for members of the Bowyer family
Usage examples of "bowyer".
The master bowyer, a stern, grizzled man, was instructing an apprentice in the finer points of fletching as they came in.
Bowyer lay over the yard before swinging down, his feet finding the footrope, and moved outward to where the clewgarnet blocks hung below the yard.
The arrowsmith and the bowyer were coughing hoarse, braying laughs, and a few of the other workmen had glanced at John.
Other bowyers would have marked the stem appropriately, but Joycenevial was far beyond such crude necessities.
The armorers, fletchers, bowyers, and swordsmiths all stood to gain from the war.
Elven women sat in a circle carding wool, and in another area elven bowyers and fletchers worked on bows and arrows.
The best bows were constructed of elm or yew, and often skilled bowyers would create bonded versions incorporating both woods.
Mather, and, since the bowyer was aged even by elven standards, most likely his last.
He looked up from the arrowhead he was fashioning and turned to the decrepit bowyer sitting next to him.
Shaking his head, the aged bowyer took out a long, heavy string of hemp and fitted it to the nocks at either end of the yew stave.
Tuigan was spreading like wildfire, from bowyer to armorer, blacksmith to fletcher, but John and Kiri let their conversation drift on to other topics.
An aircraft construction man named Bowyer who was broadcasting together with him agreed with this.
It was about 10:45 in the morning when Bowyer called on her, a good time to find her in.
McCarthy went back up with Bowyer, glanced in the broken window himself, then immediately dispatched Bowyer to the Commercial Street police station.
Fletchers, bowyers, and arrowsmiths surrounded Razor John almost completely, but the armorers and sword-smiths weren't so far away that he couldn't hear the ring of their hammers or smell the sharp smoke from their fires.