Bow
- in place-names, bow often indicates something shaped like an arch, and in street-names such as The Netherbow in Edinburgh it refers to the site of an arch that marked the entrance to the burgh. Bow Brigs, or arched bridges, are a common feature of the Scottish countryside, and this compound was used frequently in Old Scots. Sources quoted in A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue in the Dictionary of the Scots Language include an entry in the Burgh Records for Peebles (1653) on the building of ane bow bridge over the miln-dam and an entry in the Burgh Records of Aberdeen (1610), about the bow brig...ower the Den Burne.