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bowstringing

bowstringing is the present participle and gerund of bowstring.

Meaning of bowstring

Verb

bowstring (third-person singular simple present bowstrings, present participle bowstringing, simple past and past participle bowstrung or bowstringed)

  1. (transitive) To strangle with a bowstring.
    • When the day broke […] it was high time for her to get up and be bowstrung—a thing very little more pleasant than hanging, only a trifle more genteel.1850, Edgar Allan Poe, The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade

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Questions about bowstringing

What is bowstringing the present participle and gerund of?
Bowstringing is the present participle and gerund of bowstring.

Words near bowstringing in the dictionary

  1. bowstring knot
  2. bowstring knots
  3. bowstringed
  4. bowstringer
  5. bowstringers
  6. bowstringing
  7. bowstrings
  8. bowstroke
  9. bowstrokes
  10. bowstrung
  11. bowswoman

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bowstringing (page history and authors); bowstring (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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