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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.
(bowling) One who engages in the sport of bowling.
(cricket) The player currently bowling.
(cricket) A player selected mainly for his bowling ability.
The pitcher.
A bowler hat; a round black hat formerly popular among British businessmen.
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As a proper noun bowyer
is an english occupational surname for someone who made bows for archery.As a noun bowler is
(bowling) one who engages in the sport of bowling or bowler can be a bowler hat; a round black hat formerly popular among british businessmen.bowyer
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* (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of a former act directing the bowyers of London and Westminster to make four bows of different wood for one of yew, was repealed on their representation that the citizens of London would use none but yew bows, and in it's place they were ordered always to have by them at least fifty bows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.