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bowhunt

bowhunt verb: to hunt game using a bow and arrow.

Verb

bowhunt (third-person singular simple present bowhunts, present participle bowhunting, simple past and past participle bowhunted)

  1. To hunt game using a bow and arrow.

Forms of bowhunt

third-person singular presentbowhunts
present participlebowhunting
past participlebowhunted
pastbowhunted

Origin of bowhunt

From bow + hunt, or back-formation from bowhunting.

Questions about bowhunt

What does bowhunt mean?
Bowhunt means to hunt game using a bow and arrow.
What part of speech is bowhunt?
Bowhunt is a verb.
What is the past tense of bowhunt?
The past tense of bowhunt is bowhunted.

Words near bowhunt in the dictionary

  1. bowgy
  2. bowhead
  3. bowhead whale
  4. bowhead whales
  5. bowheads
  6. bowhunt
  7. bowhunted
  8. bowhunter
  9. bowhunters
  10. bowhunting
  11. bowhuntress

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