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The left hand; the hand which holds the bow. (This bow rhymes with flow.)
To be too much of the bow-hand. To fail in a design; not be sufficiently dexterous.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.