BOWMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bowman mean? 

• BOWMAN (noun)
  The noun BOWMAN has 1 sense:

1. a person who is expert in the use of a bow and arrow

  Familiarity information: BOWMAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOWMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who is expert in the use of a bow and arrow

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

archer; bowman

Hypernyms ("bowman" is a kind of...):

expert (a person with special knowledge or ability who performs skillfully)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bowman"):

longbowman (a medieval English archer who used a longbow)

Instance hyponyms:

Tell; William Tell (a Swiss patriot who lived in the early 14th century and who was renowned for his skill as an archer; according to legend an Austrian governor compelled him to shoot an apple from his son's head with his crossbow (which he did successfully without mishap))

 Context examples 

“Now, there is a true friend!” cried the bowman, taking her hand.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Here they spread out into a long straggling line of spearmen and bowmen.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Look at that now!” cried the bowman in triumph.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“No, fair sir,” cried the bowman joyously.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

These coats-of-arms could be read, where a scroll would be meaningless, and the bowman, like most men of his age, was well versed in the common symbols of heraldry.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“And I found him an over-apt pupil,” grumbled the bowman.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“May you live to see it,” quoth the bowman.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have felt his arms round my ribs, said the bowman, and they crackle yet at the thought of it.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Hast come to stop?” cried the bowman, patting Alleyne all over in his delight.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Some might say one thing and some another, just as one bowman loves the yew, and a second will not shoot save with the ash.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)