/booh'streuh feed"n, -fee"don, bow'-/ , n.
an ancient method of writing in which the lines run alternately from right to left and from left to right.
[ 1775-85; boustrophedón lit., like ox-turning (in plowing), equiv. to bou- (s. of boûs ) ox + -strophe- (see STROPHE) + -don adv. suffix ]