Etymology

From longbow +‎ string +‎ makerCategory:English compound terms#LONGBOWSTRINGMAKER.

Noun

longbowstringmaker (plural longbowstringmakers)Category:English lemmas#LONGBOWSTRINGMAKERCategory:English nouns#LONGBOWSTRINGMAKERCategory:English countable nouns#LONGBOWSTRINGMAKERCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#LONGBOWSTRINGMAKERCategory:Pages with entries#LONGBOWSTRINGMAKERCategory:Pages with 1 entry#LONGBOWSTRINGMAKER

1. 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.

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   • 2008, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register:

     Although he was apprenticed to a longbowstringmaker, he evidently earned his living as a wiredrawer.

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