bowswomen

Noun

bowswoman (plural bowswomen)

1. A female archer.
   • To-morrow we’ll try for deer in the backwoods, you are no bad bowswoman yourself, […]1864, Diary of George Dern; or, Jottings of a Year of Middle Life, London: T[homas] Cautley Newby, […], page 65
2. (rare) A female sailor who works in the bow of a vessel.
   • So he passed it along to Salanda, who was, if we may be allowed that expression, bowswoman. She stood it upright in the bows.1855, Benauly [pseudonym; Benjamin Vaughan Abbott; Austin Abbott; Lyman Abbott], “Cold Water”, in Cone Cut Corners: The Experiences of a Conservative Family in Fanatical Times; Involving Some Account...