bowhuntress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bowhuntresses
Etymology: From bow + huntress, on model of bowhunter.
Senses: examples: text: Mrs. Florence Pace, Cornell bowhuntress, found a way to beat the current meat shortage.
ref: 1946 October 3, “Bowhunters Bag Deer at Necedah: Florence Pace, Cornell, Gets Five Point Buck”, in Chippewa Herald-Telegram, Chippewa Falls, Wis., page six, column 1:
text: One doesn’t read too many stories in the magazine written by these gals that hunt with the bow, but these bowhuntresses must have some interesting tales that would make good reading material.
ref: 1955, The Bowhunter, page 7:
text: They [the prizes] are: […] 4, for first bowhuntress to bring deer to Kaibab Lodge desk clerk, a dozen Blackhawk arrows.
ref: 1958 September 7, Ben Avery, “Rod And Gun: Top Prize Selection Awaits Arizona Bowhunters In Special Archery Hunts”, in The Arizona Republic, 69th year, number 11, Phoenix, Ariz., section 3, page 4, column 1:
text: Bowhuntress Jenny Candahl Levels An Arrow At The Target
ref: 1961 August 27, “Blackhawk Bowhunters Gather In Greenwood Behind Onalaska H.S.”, in The La Crosse Sunday Tribune, volume 57, number 102, La Crosse, Wis., page 9:
text: Euretha Schomaker of Detroit was Michigan’s first successful bowhuntress.
ref: 1963, Arnold O. Haugen, Harlan G. Metcalf, “Development of Modern Bowhunting”, in Field Archery and Bowhunting, New York, N.Y.: The Ronald Press Company, →LCCN, section III (History of Archery), chapter section “Who’s Who Among Women Bowhunters”, page 168:
text: SLEEPING BEAUTY—Maybe this pretty bowhuntress can find an alarm clock and a rear view mirror at the Central Michigan Sport and Boat Show to help her improve her hunting.
ref: 1963 March 12, The State Journal, Lansing–East Lansing, Mich., page B-2:
text: One of the episodes of The Michigan Sportsman follows a lady bowhunter on her first deer hunt. “Misadventures of a Bowhuntress” features Mr. and Mrs. Dick Wilson of Kalamazoo.
ref: 1969 January 27, “The lighter side: In camera”, in Television Age, page 60, column 1:
text: Abilene women took all three places in Class B bowhuntress, Shirley Adkisson taking first, Gladys Bowman second and Fran Blackstock third.
ref: 1969 August 18, “11 Local Archers Earn High Places”, in The Abilene Reporter-News, 89th year, number 62, Abilene, Tex., page 15-A, column 2:
text: Bowhuntress Scores / Petite, Dale Gross, of 645 Chestnut St., Emmaus, showed the boys how it is done when she dropped a 60-pound doe with one arrow at 8:30 a.m. on opening day.
ref: 1971 October 3, H.R. “Dutch” Wambold, “Hunting Trails: There Were Some Successes”, in Sunday Call-Chronicle, number 2586, Allentown, Pa., page C-11, column 5:
text: The prize-winning doe, a 116-pounder, was tagged by Frank DeSessa of Morris Plains, while the bowhuntress award was garnered by Tony Ann Lenza of Lyndhurst — an 11-year-old gal who bagged the doe with a single arrow at 30 yards.
ref: 1977 November 29, Howard Brant, “Hunting and Fishing: Archers harvest 2,366 whitetails”, in The Jersey Journal, 111th year, number 178, page 24, column 6:
text: “We’ll also have our traditional bowhuntress and junior bowhunter awards programs for the 1985 season as well,” [Len] Cardinale added.
ref: 1985 September 3, Howard Brant, “Prizes in store for bowhunters”, in The Jersey Journal, 119th year, number 104, page 28, columns 1–2:
text: An easy walking trail wends among lofty pines through avenues of sheer, intoxicating color around a 20-acre lake garnished here and there with classical statues, like the bowhuntress Artemis, the houndsman Actaeon and the beautiful young mother Daphne with child beside her.
ref: 2000 March 12, Ernest Herndon, “Colors add zest to spring outdoors”, in Enterprise-Journal, 110th year, number 281, McComb, Miss., page 6-B, column 1:
text: Hunting magazines often dub [Jana] Waller a “bowhuntress,” although she’s handy with a rifle and rod, too.
ref: 2011 December 26, Jenna Cederberg, “Skull hunters: Couple’s adventure show debuts Saturday on the Sportsman Channel”, in Missoulian, page B2, column 1:
glosses: A female bowhunter.