Bow

Bow may mean:

• Bow tie, a piece of decorative clothing (like neck tie)
• Bow (knot), a type of knot
• 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:

• Bow, 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

See also

• List of people by name: Bov-Boz for persons with the name Bow
• Rainbow, an optical phenomenon causing coloured bands to appear in the sky
• Oxbow (disambiguation)