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bowmaster

noun
/ˈbəʊˌmæstə(ɹ)/

Etymology

From bow + master.

  1. derived from maistre
  2. derived from *méǵh₂s✻
  3. derived from magester
  4. derived from magister — “chief, teacher, leader”
  5. inherited from mǣster
  6. inherited from maister
  7. compounded as bowmaster — “bow + master”

Definitions

  1. An expert or consummate archer.

    • Artembáres, chariot fighter, with Masistres, the bowmaster great Imaeus, and Pharandaces, and Sosthanes, driver of horses.
    • On one side of the wide place a group of young, naked-chested archers were shooting at training targets. An elderly bowmaster with stained white moustachios walked up and down behind them, a switch in his hand.
    • The brow of the cliff hid from the Ahrmehnee the staggered line of bowmasters, but the barbarians could see them, and increasing dozens of them felt the deadly bite of the arrows.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA