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Bowless :: Bowless (a.) Destitute of a bow.

Euchre :: Euchre (n.) A game at cards, that may be played by two, three, or four persons, the highest card (except when an extra card called the Joker is used) being the knave of the same suit as the trump, and called right bower, the lowest card used being the seven, or frequently, in two-handed euchre, the nine spot. See Bower..

Yew :: Yew (n.) A bow for shooting, made of the yew..

Arbalist :: Arbalist (n.) A crossbow, consisting of a steel bow set in a shaft of wood, furnished with a string and a trigger, and a mechanical device for bending the bow. It served to throw arrows, darts, bullets, etc..

Bowl :: Bowl (v. t.) To roll, as a bowl or cricket ball..

Gammon :: Gammon (v. t.) To fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a vessel by lashings of rope or chain, or by a band of iron..

Bowel :: Bowel (n.) Hence, figuratively: The interior part of anything; as, the bowels of the earth..

Spare :: Spare (n.) The right of bowling again at a full set of pins, after having knocked all the pins down in less than three bowls. If all the pins are knocked down in one bowl it is a double spare; in two bowls, a single spare..

Bowman :: Bowman (n.) The man who rows the foremost oar in a boat; the bow oar.

Stem-winder :: Stemson (n.) A piece of curved timber bolted to the stem, keelson, and apron in a ship's frame near the bow..

Bowl :: Bowl (v. t.) To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels; as, we were bowled rapidly along the road..

Unboweled :: Unboweled (imp. & p. p.) of Unbowe.

Gaffle :: Gaffle (n.) A lever to bend crossbows.

Fore :: Fore (adv.) In or towards the bows of a ship.

Bowstringed :: Bowstringed (p.a.) Furnished with bowstring.

Sloop :: Sloop (n.) A vessel having one mast and fore-and-aft rig, consisting of a boom-and-gaff mainsail, jibs, staysail, and gaff topsail. The typical sloop has a fixed bowsprit, topmast, and standing rigging, while those of a cutter are capable of being readily shifted. The sloop usually carries a centerboard, and depends for stability upon breadth of beam rather than depth of keel. The two types have rapidly approximated since 1880. One radical distinction is that a slop may carry a centerboard. See

Fast :: Fast (n.) That which fastens or holds; especially, (Naut.) a mooring rope, hawser, or chain; -- called, according to its position, a bow, head, quarter, breast, or stern fast; also, a post on a pier around which hawsers are passed in mooring..

Duck :: Duck (v. i.) To drop the head or person suddenly; to bow.

Bower :: Bower (n.) One of the two highest cards in the pack commonly used in the game of euchre.

Bowel :: Bowel (n.) One of the intestines of an animal; an entrail, especially of man; a gut; -- generally used in the plural..

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