longbowstringmaker

noun

longbowstringmaker

noun

Etymology From longbow + string + maker.

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A manufacturer of strings for longbows.

  • 1968, James Edwin Oxley, Worshipful Company of Fletchers, The Fletchers and Longbowstringmakers of London (See title.)
  • […] a nautically-inclined 'potekary', longbowstringmaker and taverner.2003, Geoffrey Vaughn Scammell, Seafaring, Sailors and Trade, 1450-1750, page 108:
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  • Although he was apprenticed to a longbowstringmaker, he evidently earned his living as a wiredrawer.2008, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register:

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