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 and divides as up--bow under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

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.