Ashe prodded the ground with the tip of his bowstave. From Wordnik.com. [The Time Traders] Reference
But he had not come for breakfast or a bowstave any more than for gambling. From Wordnik.com. [Knife of Dreams]
Far off along the bowstave of beach, three figures trotted toward the Castle Rock. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Flies]
Behind the advancing elephant tall spears were rising and dipping, and here and there a bowstave. From Wordnik.com. [The Gates of Noon]
She held her bowstave propped in front of her with both hands as if to keep them from making fists. From Wordnik.com. [Knife of Dreams]
And a wooden bowstave would be less likely to survive to be dug up by archaeologists, even if one was buried with its owner. From Wordnik.com. [Bowmen in medieval Wales] Reference
With the raw bowstave over his shoulder, he walked on, wolfing down the last of the meat pie and wiping his hand on his coat. From Wordnik.com. [Knife of Dreams]
Realizing the Illianer was beginning to glare at him, he hastily got to his feet and made a presentable bow over the bowstave. From Wordnik.com. [Knife of Dreams]
The bowstave he left in the wagon he shared with Egeanin and Domon. neither of whom was there, then headed for Tuon's faded purple wagon. From Wordnik.com. [Knife of Dreams]
One-Eye asked one afternoon, as I stood leaning on a bowstave over a marker bearing the name and sigil of the Taken who had been called the Faceless Man. From Wordnik.com. [Shadow Games]
Rick - that may also be related to the availability of the technology; horse archery cultures tend to use compound bows to get sufficient power from a short bowstave, and compound bows are very complicated and sophisticated things. From Wordnik.com. [Bowmen in medieval Wales] Reference
I should think it would be a fair number, though presumably you'd have to take them from a sort of ring around the junction of the heartwood with the sapwood, since a bowstave was supposed to have both types of wood in the right positions. From Wordnik.com. [Bowmen in medieval Wales] Reference
The next morning, with the sun just rising toward a cloudless sky, he was sitting on the steps of his green wagon, carefully scraping at the bowstave with a sharp knife-you had to be careful, almost delicate: a careless slice could ruin all your work-when Egeanin and Domon came out. From Wordnik.com. [Knife of Dreams]
The Yorkshireman threw his bowstave into the air and danced in triumph, whilst his comrades roared their fierce delight in a shout of applause, which changed suddenly into a tempest of hooting and of laughter. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Nigel] Reference
Steel caps, mail brigandines, white surcoats with the red lion of St. George, and sword or battle-axe swinging from their belts, completed this equipment, while in some cases the murderous maule or five-foot mallet was hung across the bowstave, being fastened to their leathern shoulder-belt by a hook in the centre of the handle. From Wordnik.com. [The White Company] Reference
St.el caps, mail brigandines, white surcoats with the red lion of St. George, and sword or battle-axe swinging from their belts, completed this equipment, while in some cases the murderous maule or five-foot mallet was hung across the bowstave, being fastened to their leathern shoulder-belt by a hook in the centre of the handle. From Wordnik.com. [The White Company]
I am of no more use or value than that broken bowstave. ". From Wordnik.com. [The White Company]
He hefted the bowstave slightly with a grin. From Wordnik.com. [Knife of Dreams]
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