overbow
/ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈbəʊ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To bow or bend (something) over beyond its natural trajectory; to bend in a contrary direction.
Transitive verb
verb
To provide (an archer) with a bow that requires more strength than the archer can fully draw.
Transitive verb
noun
A structural piece that arches over another piece.
Example Sentences
- "Now her white lips would kiss away the gore— Speed, Alice, speed, or thou Wilt have but my dead frame to overbow!"
- "Like one who climbs a mountain's mighty stairs, and finds himself at length with nothing but the immeasurable sky above him, so from generalization to generalization he ascends, to find himself at length alone with the Alone, embraced and overbowed with nothing but the infinite of God."
- "The clouds and sun that overbow Low nature's movement, they alone have seen Her truth in aspiration's flower."
- "True it is, becauſe moſt in that age ranne riot in adoring of Churches […] the Waldenſes (out of that old errour not yet worn out, That the beſt way to ſtraighten what is crooked, is to over-bow it) denied Churches that relative holineſſe and fit reverence due unto them."
- "The amount by which the plate is overbowed must correspond to the thickness of the mandible."
- "She could pick up the overhead passage of a squirrel or the quiet foraging of Cuna in the sedges and rising bracken growths of the shrine hillside, and sometimes the overbowed tip of brier or hogweed where some harvest mouse or wren or blue tit swung unseen, searching for insects and grubs."
Etymology
From over- + bow.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: over