EMBOW

Etymology

Verb

embow (third-person singular simple present embows, present participle embowing, simple past and past participle embowed)

(archaic, ambitransitive) To bend like a bow; to curve.

Anagrams

• bemow

Source: Wiktionary


Em*bow", v. t.

Definition: To bend like a bow; to curve. "Embowed arches." [Obs. or R.] Sir W. Scott. With gilded horns embowed like the moon. Spenser.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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15 June 2025

SCHNORR

(verb) obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling; “he is always shnorring cigarettes from his friends”


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