Brewer's: Bow-hand

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.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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