Meaning & use
bowie
A large hunting knife with a single-edged, clip-pointed blade, named after frontiersman James Bowie.
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He carried a bowie on his belt for skinning game during the hunting trip.
The museum displayed an original nineteenth-century bowie alongside other frontier tools.
A note on using this word
Bowie is short for "bowie knife" and is usually lowercase when used as a common noun for the knife itself.
Words with a similar meaning
bowie knife
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