a. Obs. [UN-1 7 b.] Unbendable, inflexible.
1537. Bible (Matthew), Ps. ii. 9, note. A rodde of yron for a sure and unbowable domynyon.
1583. Stubbes, Anat. Abus., I. (1879), 76. So long as a sprigge, twist, or braunche, is yong, it is flexible and bowable … but if we tarie till it be a great tree, it is inflexible and unbowable.
1611. Cotgr., Imployable, inflexible, vnbowable.
