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longbowstringmaker

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English

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Etymology

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From longbow +‎ string +‎ maker.

Noun

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longbowstringmaker (plural longbowstringmakers)

  1. A manufacturer of strings for longbows.
    • 1968, James Edwin Oxley, Worshipful Company of Fletchers, The Fletchers and Longbowstringmakers of London
      (See title.)
    • 2003, Geoffrey Vaughn Scammell, Seafaring, Sailors and Trade, 1450-1750, page 108:
      [] a nautically-inclined 'potekary', longbowstringmaker and taverner.
    • 2008, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register:
      Although he was apprenticed to a longbowstringmaker, he evidently earned his living as a wiredrawer.