Definitions from Wiktionary (BoW)

▸ noun:  (archery) A weapon made of a curved piece of wood or other flexible material whose ends are connected by a string, used for shooting arrows.
▸ noun:  A curved bend in a rod or planar surface, or in a linear formation such as a river (see oxbow).
▸ noun:  (music) A rod with horsehair (or an artificial substitute) stretched between the ends, used for playing various stringed musical instruments.
▸ noun:  A stringed instrument (chordophone), consisting of a stick with a single taut cord stretched between the ends, most often played by plucking.
▸ noun:  A type of knot with two loops, used to tie together two cords such as shoelaces or apron strings, and frequently used as decoration, such as in gift-wrapping.
▸ noun:  Anything bent or curved, such as a rainbow.
▸ noun:  The U-shaped piece which goes around the neck of an ox and fastens it to the yoke.
▸ noun:  Either of the arms of a pair of spectacles, running from the side of the lens to behind the wearer's ear.
▸ noun:  Any instrument consisting of an elastic rod, with ends connected by a string, employed for giving reciprocating motion to a drill, or for preparing and arranging hair, fur, etc., used by hatters.
▸ noun:  (nautical) A crude sort of quadrant formerly used for taking the sun's altitude at sea.
▸ noun:  (saddlery) Two pieces of wood which form the arched forward part of a saddle tree.
▸ noun:  The part of a key that is not inserted into the lock and that is used to turn the key.
▸ noun:  Either of the two handles of a pair of scissors.
▸ verb:  To play music on (a stringed) instrument using a bow.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To become bent or curved.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To make something bend or curve.
▸ verb:  (transitive, figurative) To exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to bend, figuratively; to turn; to incline.
▸ verb:  (transitive, figurative) To humble or subdue, to make submit.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To bend oneself as a gesture of respect or deference.
▸ verb:  (transitive and intransitive) To debut.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To defer (to something).
▸ verb:  (transitive) To give a direction, indication, or command to by bowing.
▸ noun:  A gesture, usually showing respect, made by inclining the head or bending forward at the waist; a reverence
▸ noun:  (nautical) The front of a boat or ship.
▸ noun:  (rowing) The rower that sits in the seat closest to the bow of the boat.
▸ noun:  A surname.
▸ noun:  A place name:
▸ noun:  A suburb of eastern London, in the borough of Tower Hamlets, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ3782).
▸ noun:  A village and civil parish in Mid Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS7201).
▸ noun:  A hamlet in Ashprington parish, South Hams district, Devon (OS grid ref SX8156).
▸ noun:  A hamlet in Stanford in the Vale parish, Vale of White Horse district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SU3494).
▸ noun:  An unincorporated community in Cumberland County, Kentucky, United States.
▸ noun:  A town in Merrimack County, New Hampshire, United States.
▸ noun:  An unincorporated commmunity in Skagit County, Washington, United States.
▸ noun:  Obsolete spelling of bough. [A tree-branch, usually a primary one directly attached to the trunk.]
▸ noun:  Alternative form of bao; any of several Chinese buns and breads [Any of various types of steamed bread or bun used in Chinese cuisine]
▸ noun:  (computational linguistics) Initialism of bag of words. [(computational linguistics) The collection of words from an unprocessed text without regard to grammar; a collection of word unigrams.]
▸ noun:  (computational linguistics) Alternative letter-case form of BOW

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