longbowstringmaker
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English
Etymology
From longbow + string + maker.
Noun
longbowstringmaker (plural longbowstringmakers)
- 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.
- 1968, James Edwin Oxley, Worshipful Company of Fletchers, The Fletchers and Longbowstringmakers of London