Bow
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Bow may mean:
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- Bow tie, a piece of decorative clothing (like neck tie)
- Bow (knot), a type of knot
- Bow (weapon), an archery weapon that uses elasticity to propel arrows
- Bow (music), a device used to play a stringed instrument
- Musical bow, a musical instrument resembling an archer's bow, not to be confused with the bow used to play a stringed instrument
- E-bow, a hand-held, battery-powered electronic device for playing the electric guitar
- Bow (composite materials), a conditional longitudinal curvature in pulltruded parts
All the above are pronounced to rhyme with "no". Pronounced to rhyme with "now", the word can mean:
- Bow, the act of lowering the head or the upper body
- Bow (ship), the foremost point of the hull of a ship or boat
- Bow collector, an electric pick-up device for trains and trams
Bow may also denote the places:
- Bow, Devon, England
- Bow, London, England (historically called Stratford atte Bowe)
- Bow, Orkney, Scotland
- Bow, New Hampshire, United States
- Bow, Washington, United States
- The Bow (Calgary), a building in Calgary, Alberta
- Bow River, a river in the Canadian province of Alberta
Other uses:
- Bow (She-Ra), a character from She-Ra: Princess of Power
- Bows (band), a band from the UK
- B.O.W., for Bio-Organic Weapon - a creature created due to exposure of a viral agent in the Resident Evil series
[edit] See also
- List of people by name: Bov-Boz for persons with the name Bow
- Rainbow, an optical phenomenon causing coloured bands to appear in the sky
- Oxbow (disambiguation)
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