bowings

Noun

bowing (countable and uncountable, plural bowings)

1. The act of bending at the waist, as a sign of respect or greeting.
   • The courtier had practiced his bowing.
2. A bending.
   • The heavy books caused a bowing in the shelf.
3. A technique for using the bow on a string instrument such as a violin.
   • The bowing arm, the fingers on the strings, and then the violin itself polished brown, and the soloist's chin pillowed on it.1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 461