longbowstringmaker

English

Etymology

From longbow +‎ string +‎ maker.

Noun

longbowstringmaker (plural longbowstringmakers)

1. A manufacturer of strings for longbows.
   • 1968, James Edwin Oxley, Worshipful Company of Fletchers, The Fletchers and Longbowstringmakers of London

     (See title.)

   • 2003, Geoffrey Vaughn Scammell, Seafaring, Sailors and Trade, 1450-1750, page 108:

     […] a nautically-inclined 'potekary', longbowstringmaker and taverner.

   • 2008, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register:

     Although he was apprenticed to a longbowstringmaker, he evidently earned his living as a wiredrawer.