bowguardとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

bow +‎ guard

名詞

bowguard ‎(複数形 bowguards)

1. A protective cover worn on the wrist or forearm, sometimes extending to partially cover the hand, which provides protection from the snap of a released bowstring.
   • 1996, James Ostler, ‎Marian E. Rodee, & ‎Milford Nahohai, Zuni: a village of silversmiths, ISBN 0912535083, page 121:

     There was another big piece of coral that he later on made into a bowguard.

   • 2007, Diana Pardue, Contemporary Southwestern Jewelry, ISBN 1423601904, page 13:

     A silver bowguard made by Loloma in 1968 has one side rough and unpolished and another highly polished.

   • 2014, Andre Norton, Wizard's Worlds: A Short Story Collection, ISBN 1497657083:

     He spoke so earnestly that she could almost have believed him, had not that bowguard on his wrist proved him false.

名詞

bow-guard ‎(複数形 bow-guards)

1. A protective structure on the bow of a boat.
   • 1878, Belford's Monthly Magazine - Volume 3, page 660:

     That man who is now stepping from the wet logs to the bow-guards of the Marion, how can he ever cut down a tree?

   • 1978, Philip Denwood, Arts of the Eurasian Steppelands, ISBN 0728600544, page 4:

     It is possible that the bronze part of the bow-guard was embedded in a wooden armature in some way that obviated the use of pegs or edging on the bronze itself.

   • 2003, Scott Bannerot & ‎Wendy Bannerot, Cruisers Handbook of Fishing 2/E, ISBN 0071427880, page 214:

     It was part of a scheme that included aluminum rubrails welded the length of the hull and a Schedule 80 bow-guard (top photo page 216).

2. Alternative form of bowguard
   • 1991, Julia Ching & ‎R. W. L. Guisso, Sages and Filial Sons, ISBN 9622014690, page 183:

     Having noted T'ang Lan's remarks, Watson updated and amended his earlier views and accepted the device as a pi, or bow-guard, somehow used to "straiten" [sic] or guard an unstrung compound bow.

   • 1995, John Miles Foley, The Singer of Tales in Performance, ISBN 0253322251, page 31:

     When you get married you're supposed to be bashful and eat like this,' and he shaded his eyes with his left wrist, where a bow-guard would be worn.

   • 2004, Oliver La Farge, Laughing Boy, ISBN 0618446729, page 13:

     'Where did you get your bow-guard?' 'I made it.'