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bow

(bō),

Any device bent in a simple curve or semicircle and possessing flexibility.

[A.S. boga]

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bow

(bō)

Any device bent in a simple curve or semicircle and possessing flexibility.

[A.S. boga]

Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing © Farlex 2012

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However, I wouldn't have any faith in the EU siding with Britain, but I do get the feeling that if the situation was reversed, we would already have received a warning shot across the bows from the big guns in Brussels.

SPANISH SABRE-RATTLING

But there is a warning shot across the bows of any potentially wayward AM.

AMs must be 'beacon of behaviour' for public life

IRELAND fired a warning shot across the bows of the rest of the Continent ahead of June's European Boxing Championships in Turkey with three gold medal wins at the Feliks Stamm Multi-Nations in Poland yesterday.