Bow-guard

That man who is now stepping from the wet logs to the bow-guards of the Marion, how can he ever cut down a tree?

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It is possible that the bronze part of the bow-guard was embedded in a wooden armature in some way that obviated the use of pegs or edging on the bronze itself.

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It was part of a scheme that included aluminum rubrails welded the length of the hull and a Schedule 80 bow-guard (top photo page 216).

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Having noted T'ang Lan's remarks, Watson updated and amended his earlier views and accepted the device as a pi, or bow-guard, somehow used to "straiten" [sic] or guard an unstrung compound bow.

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