bowed

adjective4

1. •
   Bent or curved.

   • Replace any badly bowed studs, or fix a bowed stud by making a cut into the bowed area, forcing the stud straight, and bracing it with a 1x cleat (see the bottom illustration at right). — 2002
2. •
   Having a bow (rod for playing stringed instruments).

   • The viol, he argued, was in essence a bowed guitar, the result of a cross-fertilisation between the 15th-century Spanish plucked instrument known as the vihuela de mano and the medieval fiddle. — 1988
3. •
   Having been played by a bow (rod for playing stringed instruments).

   • The value 16/49 is evidently of importance as it corresponds to the first principal mode of vibration of a bowed string. — 1918
4. •
   [in compounds] Equipped with a bow (weapon).

   • […] the deadly fight / At Sparta sing, that nigh / Kithairon’s heiglits was fought, whereby / The Persian host of bent-bowed archers came / To ruin; […] — 1875