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Mowyer vs Bowyer - What's the difference?

mowyer | bowyer |

As a noun mowyer

is (obsolete) one who mows; mower.

As a proper noun bowyer is

an english occupational surname for someone who made bows for archery.

mowyer

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) One who mows; mower.
  • (zoology) The long-billed or sickle-billed curlew (Numenius americanus ).

    • bowyer

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who makes or sells bows (for use with arrows).
  • * 1786 , Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons , page 38:
    • 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of a former act directing the bowyers of London and Westminster to make four bows of different wood for one of yew, was repealed on their representation that the citizens of London would use none but yew bows, and in it's place they were ordered always to have by them at least fifty bows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.
  • (archaic) A person who uses the bow, an archer.

    • Synonyms

    * (person who makes bows) bowmaker, fletcher * (person who uses the bow) archer, bowman

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