(n.) A string used by the Turks for strangling offenders.
(v. t.) To strangle with a bowstring.
Example Sentences:
(1) They produce a magnified image, but it is an image that suffers from significant dioptric blur, diminished somewhat by use of a peep sight in the bowstring which functions as an aperture stop.
(2) Acute injuries included arrow laceration of a digital nerve and artery, contusion of forearm skin and subcutaneous tissue, and compression neuropathy of digital nerves from the bowstring.
(3) Essential measures for archery safety include use of archery protective gear, use of a light-weight bow, conditioning of the forearm flexor muscles, and modifications in drawing the bowstring.
(4) Reduction of the amount of straight leg-raising by 50 per cent or more, with or without pain in the ipsilateral hip when the asymptomatic limb was lifted (cross-over pain) and with or without pain radiating up or down the lower limb when the tibial nerve was pressed in the popliteal fossa (bowstring discomfort), was considered evidence of tension on or irritation of the nerve root and was present in all patients.
(5) Straight leg raising, Lasègue's, and bowstring tests were all positive.
(6) The plica is a synovial fold inside the knee joint that may become symptomatic if for any reason the fold is converted into a bowstring.
(7) Whether it be the banality of analysts stalking ex-lovers, the inhumanity of careerist prosecutors hounding hacktivists under vague computer laws or using impossibly broad laws like the " material support " statue to pressure innocents to become informers, the crooked timber of humanity – armed with the power of the state and restrained only by the seven fresh bowstrings of superficial legality – will bring failure for constitutional freedoms, predictably, inevitably, tragically.
(8) This procedure allows the flexor pollicis longus tendon to bowstring and substitute for thumb opposition.
Nock
Definition:
(n.) A notch.
(n.) The upper fore corner of a boom sail or of a trysail.
(v. t.) To notch; to fit to the string, as an arrow; to string, as a bow.
Example Sentences:
(1) Similarly, Nocks' embryological development theory is discussed herein.
(2) Further back still, it was the mission statement pronounced in the very title of Alfred Nock’s 1938 anti-New Deal manifesto, Our Enemy The State .
(3) Ian Nock, who runs a consultancy, said his supplier had installed a smart meter despite it being located in his basement where it was unable to get a signal.