Usually means: Tool for playing string instruments.
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General (34 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bow, bow: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. bow, bow, bow: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bow, bow, bow: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bow: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bow: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bow, bow: Wordnik
  7. bow: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Bow, bow: Wiktionary
  9. bow: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bow: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bow: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. BOW: Dictionary.com
  13. bow (n1.), bow (n2.), bow (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. bow: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Bow (Masters of the Universe), Bow (She-Ra), Bow (archery), Bow (knot), Bow (music), Bow (musical instrument), Bow (name), Bow (ship), Bow (weapon), Bow, The Bow (film), The Bow (skyscraper), The Bow: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Bow: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. bow: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. bow: Rhymezone
  19. Bow: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. bow: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Bow, Bow: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. bow: Free Dictionary
  23. bow: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Bow, bow: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. Bow: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Banjo Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Bow (disambiguation), bow: Legal dictionary
  4. Glossary of Trade and Shipping Terms (No longer online)
  5. WebmasterWorld Webmaster and Search Engine Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bow (boat), Bow (disambiguation), Bow (river, Canada), Bow (weapon), bow: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Bow (boat), Bow (disambiguation), bow: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. BOW: Acronym Finder
  4. BOW: Three Letter Words with definitions
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  6. bow: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bow: Easton Bible
  2. Bow: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. bow: Archaeology Wordsmith
  2. Bow: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. bow, bow, bow, bow: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. bow: The Folk File
  3. B.O.W, Bow, bow: Urban Dictionary

Sports (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Canoe Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Canoe Terminology (No longer online)
  3. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  4. Bow: Sports Definitions

Tech (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Metal Terminology (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Locksmith Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. BOW: Glossary of Nautical Terms
  5. Bow: Glossary of Woodworking Terms
  6. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  7. Sandahl, Middle English Sea Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  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:  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) Alternative letter-case form of BOW
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.]

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