(UN-1 + BOW sb.1] Of pigs: Not furnished with a bow-shaped piece of wood to impede their movements.
1624. in H. Maclean, Watermillock Reg. (1908), 157. That none … shall keep their swine unbowed … sub poena for every swine so unbowed iiij d.
1794. W. Hutchinson, Hist. Cumbld., I. 163, note. The tenants are subject to pains … for swine going unbowed in the time of harvest.
