bowsprit

• He would also frequently run out on the bowsprit, and climb about the rigging with the agility of a cat. —  Stories of Animal Sagacity
• With a short flag-staff projecting over the door like a bowsprit, the effect was quite magical. —  The Story of a Bad Boy
• A big bright round moon was dancing over the vessel's bowsprit, and this, together with the tug thumping into the distance, and the land receding, gave me -- coming on my wrath -- suffocating emotions. —  The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete
• Between it and the bowsprit are the fore-stay-sail, jib, and flying-jib. —  Man on the Ocean A Book about Boats and Ships
• Yes, that long low hull, with its abnormal length of counter, and its bold sheer forward, the high, dominating bow with its excessive rake of stem, and the peculiar steeve of the bowsprit were all familiar to me. —  A Middy of the Slave Squadron A West African Story

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