BOW

'Bow' may mean:

★ Bow (knot), a type of knot

★ Bow tie, a piece of decorative clothing (like neck tie)

★ 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:

★ Bowing (social), 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

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See also

★ Rainbow, an optical phenomenon causing coloured bands to appear in the sky

★ Oxbow (disambiguation)