Archer vs Bowyer - What's the difference?
archer | bowyer |
One who shoots an arrow from a bow or a bolt from a crossbow.
(historical, obsolete) The bishop in chess.
(arch)
A person who makes or sells bows (for use with arrows).
* 1786 , Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons , page 38:
(archaic) A person who uses the bow, an archer.
Bowyer is a synonym of archer.
As nouns the difference between archer and bowyer
is that archer is one who shoots an arrow from a bow or a bolt from a crossbow while bowyer is a person who makes or sells bows (for use with arrows).As proper nouns the difference between archer and bowyer
is that archer is sagittarius while Bowyer is an English occupational surname for someone who made bows for archery.As an adjective archer
is comparative of arch.archer
English
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* bowman * crossbowman * marksman * toxophilite * toxotesDerived terms
* archeress * archerfish * archeryAdjective
(head)See also
* arrow * bow * quiver * Sagittarius * sagittary ----bowyer
English
Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- A clause of a former act directing the bowyers of London and Westminster to make four bows of different wood for one of yew, was repealed on their representation that the citizens of London would use none but yew bows, and in it's place they were ordered always to have by them at least fifty bows of elm, witch-hasel, or ash.