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saddle bows
n. (plural of saddle bow English)
Usage examples of "saddle bows".
Unlike the Outfit's A-listers, Protectorate menatarms didn't carry saddle bows as well as lances.
They just came back, leading the enemy, pelting him with arrows from their saddle bows.
Rafe rode ahead, the squaw and the pack-horse following, and Johnny Gill, rifle still across the saddle bows, bringing up the rear.
Rafe rode ahead, the squaw and the packhorse following and Johnny Gill, rifle still across the saddle bows, bringing up the rear.
His shoulder and side were dark with the stain of it, and he carried his rifle across his saddle bows.