embow
verb/ɪmˈbəʊ/
Etymology From em- + bow.
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Ambitransitive, Archaic To bend like a bow; to curve.
- embowed arches1826, [Walter Scott], Woodstock; Or, The Cavalier. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, →OCLC:
- with gilded horns embowd like the moon1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Visions of the Worlds Vanitie”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:
- Derived terms
- embowment