* In various Asian countries ( including Siberia ) birch bark was used to make storage boxes, paper, tinder, canoes, roof coverings, tents, and waterproof covering for composite bows, such as the Mongol bow, the Chinese bow, Korean bow, Turkish bows, Assyrian bow, the Perso-Parthian bow .... etc.

The orchestra is far enough away from you that you miss the bow scrapes, valve clicks, and other noises incidental to playing.

That is, when Mr. Milstein thrust straight to the core of the music, sparks flying, bow shredding, violin singing, glittering and sometimes spitting, Mr. Hendl could go along.

The terrible god is called " The Archer ", and the bow is also an attribute of Shiva.

In her earliest depictions she is accompanied by the " Mister of the animals ", a male god of hunting who had the bow as his attribute.

Apollo as a handsome beardless young man, is often depicted with a kithara ( as Apollo Citharoedus ) or bow in his hand, or reclining on a tree ( the Apollo Lykeios and Apollo Sauroctonos types ).

Once the anchor is hauled up to the hawsepipe, the ring end is hoisted up to the end of a timber projecting from the bow known as the cathead.

The depth of water is necessary for determining scope, which is the ratio of length of cable to the depth measured from the highest point ( usually the anchor roller or bow chock ) to the seabed.

Using two anchors set approximately 45 ° apart, or wider angles up to 90 °, from the bow is a strong mooring for facing into strong winds.

In the bow and stern technique, an anchor is set off each the bow and the stern, which can severely limit a vessel's swing range and also align it to steady wind, current or wave conditions.

One method of accomplishing this moor is to set a bow anchor normally, then drop back to the limit of the bow cable ( or to double the desired scope, e. g. 8: 1 if the eventual scope should be 4: 1, 10: 1 if the eventual scope should be 5: 1, etc.

When a vessel is in a narrow channel or on a lee shore so that there is no room to tack the vessel in a conventional manner an anchor attached to the lee quarter may be dropped from the lee bow.

Among Classical Greeks, amazon was given a popular etymology as from a-mazos, " without breast ", connected with an etiological tradition that Amazons had their left breast cut off or burnt out, so they would be able to use a bow more freely and throw spears without the physical limitation and obstruction ; there is no indication of such a practice in works of art, in which the Amazons are always represented with both breasts, although the left is frequently covered ( see photos in article ).

Archery is the art, practice, or skill of propelling arrows with the use of a bow, from Latin arcus.

A person who participates in archery is typically known as an " archer " or " bowman ", and one who is fond of or an expert at archery can be referred to as a " toxophilite ".< ref > The noun " toxophilite ", meaning " a lover or devotee of archery, an archer ", is derived from Toxophilus by Roger Ascham —" imaginary proper name invented by Ascham, and hence title of his book ( 1545 ), intended to mean ' lover of the bow '.

Bows eventually replaced the spear-thrower as the predominant means for launching shafted projectiles, on every continent except Australia, though spear-throwers persisted alongside the bow in parts of the Americas, notably Mexico ( where the Nahuatl word for " spear-thrower " is atlatl ) and amongst the Inuit.

When a bow is used, the muscles are able to perform work much more slowly, resulting in greater force and greater work done.

A recurve crossbow is a bow that has tips curving away from the archer.

The recurve bow's bent limbs have a longer draw length than an equivalent straight-limbed bow, giving more acceleration to the projectile and less hand shock.

Multiple bow systems have a special system of pulling the sinew via several bows ( which can be recurve bows ).

The limbs of a compound bow are much stiffer than those of a recurve bow or longbow.

This effectively makes the bow function very similar to a recurve, with the draw length determined by the shooter's preferred anchor point, but it also removes the necessity to adjust the draw length or purchase a new bow as the shooter grows up.

A traditional recurve bow has a very linear draw weight curve-meaning that as the bow is drawn back, the draw force becomes increasingly heavier with each inch of draw ( and most difficult at full draw ).

This manipulation of the peak weight throughout the draw ( accomplished by the elliptical shape of the cams that change leverage and mechanical advantage ) is why compound bows store more energy and shoot faster than an equivalent peak weight recurve bow or longbow.

* When a compound bow is drawn, the limbs are pulled in toward each other, by the buss cables, unlike a longbow or recurve where the limbs flex in the direction of the bow string.

* Unlike most recurve bows, replacing the string or making adjustments to let-off or draw length often requires a bow press or a trip to an archery pro shop that has one.

* The relatively low holding weight of a compound bow compared to a recurve bow makes the compound more sensitive to certain shooting form faults when the archer is at full draw.

The only notable difference is that the spine of the arrow, which is a measure of its stiffness, is not as great for a compound bow as it would be for a recurve bow of the same draw weight ( power ).

This is due to the fact that a compound bow will accelerate an arrow more gently and linearly as the cam unwinds so flexing the arrow less, as compared to the explosive acceleration of an arrow from a recurve bow where the full power of the limbs is applied to the arrow as soon as the string is released.

Both the Huns ' and Magyars ' historically attested skill with the recurve bow and arrow are attributed to Nimród.

However, as the bow is drawn, the recurve ' unwinds ', the limb becomes effectively longer, and the mechanical advantage of the archer increases.

Modern recurve bow

A recurve bow has tips that curve away from the archer when the bow is strung.

By definition, the difference between recurve and other bows is that the string touches a section of the limb when the bow is strung.

Although Thévenard's manoeuvre was successful, it placed his own bow under Minotaurs guns and by 21: 25 the French ship was dismasted and battered, Captain Thévenard killed and his junior officers forced to surrender.

The bow was either raised in a forecastle or covered under a turtleback ; underneath this were the crew spaces, extending 1 / 4 to 1 / 3 the way along the hull.

For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

They have a ruff under the neck, which has black bars, is not very visible, and resembles a bow tie.

The lee side of the hull is more under water than the weather side and the resulting shape of the submerged parts of the hull usually creates a force that pushes the bow to weather.

In heavy winds, a boat with its bow too low may capsize by pitching forward over its bow ( pitch-pole ) or dive under the waves ( submarine ).

Gregory's interpretations of (" And when all things shall be subdued unto him ...") and (" That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth ") support this understanding of his theology.

Some churches observe the practice of holding the epitaphios at the door, above waist level, so the faithful most bow down under it as they come back into the church, symbolizing their entering into the death and resurrection of Christ.

Agoli-agbo's symbols are a leg kicking a rock, a bow ( a symbol of the return to traditional weapons under the new rules established by the colonial administrators ), and a broom.

The great of Egypt and the Nine Arches lands bow themselves and unite under his feet as Master of Both Lands of Egypt.

Helenus, the prophetic son of King Priam of Troy, was forced to reveal, under torture, that one of the conditions of the Greeks ' winning the war was that they needed the bow and arrows of Heracles.

There are several different concepts of utilizing the cams to store energy in the limbs, and these all fall under a category called bow eccentrics.

Later that night, under cover of darkness, Ed climbs a nearby rock face in order to dispatch the suspected shooter using his bow, while Bobby stays behind to look after Lewis.

A swift boat fitted with a torpedo on a pole projecting from its bow under water, it could be used to surprise an enemy vessel and impale it underneath the water line.

Their religious beliefs include a literal version of Exodus, Chapter 20, verses 4 and 5, which says: ' Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth ; thou shalt not bow down thyself to them nor serve them.

This ancient ritual was a form of subjugation by which the defeated had to bow and pass under a yoke used for oxen.

Soon, Dasein is having narrow misses with perfectly plausible accidents: A boy playing with a bow and arrow releases it ; the lift under his car in a garage collapses ; a waitress in a diner accidentally uses insecticide rather than sugar for his coffee.

You shall not make for yourself a graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth ; you shall not bow down to them or serve them ; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

Forms Ryuko Kyūdōjō to promote the practice of Kyūdō under the direction of Shibata Kanjuro Sensei, bow maker to the Emperor of Japan.

The French dance bow was held with the thumb under the hair and played with short, quick strokes for rhythmic dance music.

Though armed only with a pike, these early horsemen were very qualified as mounted cavalrymen, but when provided with a bow under Sennacherib ( 705-681 BC ), they eventually became capable both of long-range and hand-to-hand combat, mirroring the development of dual-purpose cataphract archers by the Parthian Empire during the 1st century BC.

The sailor was tied to a line that looped beneath the vessel, thrown overboard on one side of the ship, and dragged under the ship's keel, either from one side of the ship to the other, or the length of the ship ( from bow to stern ).

This occurs especially in dinghy sailboats such as Laser 2 because nothing prevents the sheet from being pulled under the bow.

Virginia's bow ram got stuck in the enemy ship's hull, and as Cumberland listed and began to go down, she almost pulled Virginia under with her.