| BOWSTRING | • bowstring n. The string of an archer’s bow. • bowstring n. (Historical) The string of an archer’s bow, as used by the Turks for strangling offenders. • bowstring v. (Transitive) To strangle with a bowstring. |
| DELUSTRING | • delustring v. Present participle of delustre. • DELUSTRE v. to remove the lustre from. |
| DISLUSTRING | • dislustring v. Present participle of dislustre. • DISLUSTRE v. (archaic) to deprive of lustre. |
| DRAWSTRING | • drawstring n. A string or cord, encased in a fabric tube, with one or more small openings into the tube, on a bag… • DRAWSTRING n. a cord for drawing tight e.g. round a hood. |
| HAMSTRING | • hamstring n. (Anatomy) One of the great tendons situated in each side of the ham, or space back of the knee, and… • hamstring n. (Informal) The biceps femoris, semimembranosus, and semitendinosus muscles. • hamstring v. (Transitive) To lame or disable by cutting the tendons of the ham or knee; to hough. |
| HEARTSTRING | • heartstring n. Singular of heartstrings. • HEARTSTRING n. a nerve or tendon imagined to brace and sustain the heart; (in plural) affections. |
| LATCHSTRING | • latchstring n. A string attached to a latch allowing it to be disengaged from the opposite side. • LATCHSTRING n. a key or string for opening a latched door. |
| LUSTRING | • lustring n. A glossy silk fabric; lutestring. • LUSTRING n. a glossy silk cloth, also LUSTRINE, LUTESTRING. |
| LUTESTRING | • lutestring n. (Archaic) A plain, stout, lustrous silk, used for ladies’ dresses and for ribbon. • LUTESTRING n. a glossy silk cloth, also LUSTRINE, LUSTRING. |
| MAISTRING | • maistring v. Present participle of maistre. • MAISTRING n. (obsolete) mastering, also MASTERING. |
| OUTLUSTRING | • outlustring v. Present participle of outlustre. • OUTLUSTRE v. (Shakespeare) to exceed in lustre, also OUTLUSTER. |
| RESTRING | • restring v. (Transitive) To string again. • RESTRING v. to string again. |
| SHOESTRING | • shoestring n. (Chiefly US) The string or lace used to secure a shoe to the foot; a shoelace. • shoestring n. (Figuratively, often attributively). • shoestring adj. (US, chiefly American football, baseball) Of a catch or tackle: made near the ground, close to a player’s shoes. |
| STRING | • string n. (Countable) A long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together. • string n. (Uncountable) Such a structure considered as a substance. • string n. (Countable) A thread. |
| SUPERSTRING | • superstring n. (Physics) a hypothetical object consisting of a very small one-dimensional string that vibrates in ten… • superstring n. (Computing) The string (sequence of text characters) that contains a substring. • SUPERSTRING n. a hypothetical very small one-dimensional particle from which other fundamental particles arise. |
| UNSTRING | • unstring v. (Transitive) To remove the string or strings from. • unstring v. (Transitive) To shake the nerves of; to cause anxiety or panic in. • unstring v. To defuse or relax. |