up-bow

1. 1.

   an upward stroke from the tip to the heel of the bow

   Broaderbow

Questions about up-bow

What does up-bow mean?

up-bow means "an upward stroke from the tip to the heel of the bow".

How many syllables are in up-bow?

up-bow has 2 syllables: up--bow. The stress falls on "up-".

Is up-bow a common word?

up-bow is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.