# bowed
## English
### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /baʊd/
* Rhymes: -aʊd
* Audio (US):(file)

#### Verb

bowed
* simple past and past participle of bow

##### Derived terms

* unbowed

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /boʊd/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /bəʊd/
* Rhymes: -əʊd
* Homophone: bode

#### Verb

bowed
* simple past and past participle of bow

#### Adjective

bowed (not comparable)
* Having a bow (rod for playing stringed instruments).
** 1988, Ian Woodfield, The Early History of the Viol, page 3:The viol, he argued, was in essence a bowed guitar, the result of a cross-fertilisation between the 15th-century Spanish plucked instrument known as the vihuela de mano and the medieval fiddle.
** 2005, Ruth Burgess, Hay & Stardust: Resources for Christmas to Candlemas, page 216:Heading over to the MacLeod Centre for some fresh air and a quick bowl of soup— forcing myself out of my little office, narrow work-self, out of the head-down attitude that I must finish what I;ve started — and turning the corner, I see a woman in a gold lame/ jacket and woollen hat with earflaps, playing some sort of stringed instrument in the sun. A bowed sultry, somebody says. 'A bowed what?' 'Psalter — as in psalm.'
    a bowed instrument
* Having been played by a bow (rod for playing stringed instruments).
** 1918, C. V. Raman, On the Mechanical Theory of the Vibrations of Bowed Strings and of Musical Instruments of the Violin Family:The value 16/49 is evidently of importance as it corresponds to the first principal mode of vibration of a bowed string.
** 1918, John Duncan, Sydney George Starling ·, A Text Book of Physics for the Use of Students of Science, page 760:The mode of vibration of a bowed string is peculiar, since it is not a simple harmonic motion.
** 2007, Ken Greenebaum, Ronen Barzel, Audio Anecdotes III:Today, the behavior of bowed string instruments is reasonably well understood, and efficient synthesis algorithms allow us to reproduce most of the phenomena that appear in real instruments.
** 2012, Neville H. Fletcher, Thomas D. Rossing, The Physics of Musical Instruments, page 45:The motion of a bowed string has interested physicists for many years, and much has been written on the subject.
* (in combination) Equipped with a bow (weapon).
** 1875, Thomas Charles Baring, transl., Pindar in English Rhyme; Being an Attempt to Render the Epinikian Odes, with the Principal Remaining Fragments, of Pindar, into English Rhymed Verse, London: Henry S. King & Co., page 91:[…] the deadly fight / At Sparta sing, that nigh / Kithairon’s heiglits was fought, whereby / The Persian host of bent-bowed archers came / To ruin; […]
** 1927, Ye Sylvan Archer, page 19:Now some of our weak-bowed archers are using glass sights on their bows for 100-yard shooting.
** 1963, James Michie, transl., The Odes of Horace: The Centennial Hymn, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., published 1965, →LCCN, pages 227–228:Apollo, augur, bright-bowed archer, well-loved / Music-master of the nine Muses, healer / Whose skill in medicine can ease the body’s / Ills and infirmities, / By thy affection for the Palatine altars / Prolong, we pray, the Roman State and Latium’s / Prosperity into future cycles, nobler / Eras, for evermore.
** 1972, The Homeric Hymns and The Battle of the Frogs and the Mice, New York, N.Y.: Atheneum, page 56:Say, is He Zeus? or perhaps He’s the silver-bowed archer Apollo?
** 1977, Margaret Cone, Richard Francis Gombrich, transl., The Perfect Generosity of Prince Vessantara: A Buddhist Epic, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →ISBN, page 85:Let the strong-bowed archers draw their bows.
** 2012, Bhikkhu Bodhi, transl., The Numerical Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Aṅguttara Nikāya, Boston: Wisdom Publications, →ISBN, page 435:My speed was like that of a light arrow easily shot by a firm-bowed archer—one trained, skillful, and experienced—across the shadow of a palmyra tree.
* Bent or curved.
** 2002, Larry Haun, Vincent Laurence, Tim Snyder, Habitat for Humanity, how to Build a House, page 215:Replace any badly bowed studs, or fix a bowed stud by making a cut into the bowed area, forcing the stud straight, and bracing it with a 1x cleat (see the bottom illustration at right).
** 2006, T. A. Landers, Professional Care of the Racehorse, page 206:A bowed tendon is one of the most serious leg problems for racehorses .

##### Derived terms

* bowed dulcimer
* bowed guitar
* bowedness
* bowed psaltery
* hair-bowed
* outbowed