1. bowstring - Noun
2. bowstring - Verb
The string of a bow.
A string used by the Turks for strangling offenders.
To strangle with a bowstring.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThere shall be a dawn or an afternoon or a noontime when some man in the fighting will take the life from me also either with a spearcast or an arrow flown from the bowstring. Homer
As the battle wore on, the arm and shoulder muscles would tire from exertion, the fingers holding the bowstring would strain and the stress of combat would slacken the rate of fire. Source: Internet
Attached to this, at the back, was a pair of ' winches ' and a 'claw', used to ratchet the bowstring back to the armed firing position. Source: Internet
Depending on the arrow's elasticity, some of the energy is also absorbed by compressing the arrow, primarily because the release of the bowstring is rarely in line with the arrow shaft, causing it to flex out to one side. Source: Internet
Drawing the bowstring back with the winches twisted the already taut springs, storing the energy to fire the projectiles. Source: Internet
Of the remaining energy, some is dampened both by the limbs of the bow and the bowstring. Source: Internet