simple past and past participle of bow
Having a bow (rod for playing stringed instruments).
The viol, he argued, was in essence a bowed guitar, the result of a cross-fertilisation between the 15th-century Spanish plucked instrument known as the vihuela de mano and the medieval fiddle.
Having been played by a bow (rod for playing stringed instruments).
The value 16/49 is evidently of importance as it corresponds to the first principal mode of vibration of a bowed string.
Equipped with a bow (weapon).
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[…] the deadly fight / At Sparta sing, that nigh / Kithairon’s heiglits was fought, whereby / The Persian host of bent-bowed archers came / To ruin; […]