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bowyangs

/ ˈəʊæŋ /

plural noun

  1. history a pair of strings or straps secured round each trouser leg below the knee, worn esp by sheep-shearers and other labourers
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Origin of bowyangs1

C19: from English dialect bowy-yanks leggings
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The first man that Steelman and Smith came up to on the last embankment, where they struck the new railway line, was a heavy, gloomy, labouring man with bowyangs on and straps round his wrists.

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