bow¹ n [bou].
   1 A strip of wood bent to form the frame of a snowshoe.
   [1866] LLOYD 78 [Eskimo snowshoes] are composed of bow, bars, and 'filling,' as the insides are called. The bow is usually oval, and is always made of birch. 1913 Christmas Chimes 16 Forty years ago I saw at Wigwam Point in the Exploits River an old Micmac [woman] cutting out the bow of a snowshoe with a knife made out of a bit of iron hoop.
   2 One of the curved struts forming the frame of a lobster pot (P 148-62).
   T 39/40-64 First thing you got to chop three sticks and then you turn the bows, three bows, sometimes four bows, and then you [lath] it u. T 14/20-64 They'd have [three or] four of these bows. They'll make a parlour in this one, they'll put one head in this end, one in the side and one in this end—three.

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