prow

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To crown all, seated sideways in the high, open shark's-mouth of our prow was a little dwarf of a boy, one of Media's pages, a red conch-shell, bugle-wise suspended at his side.

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  1. noun Nautical The forward part of a ship's hull; the bow.
  2. noun A projecting forward part, such as the front end of a ski.

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  • Gloria Rutherford at the prow was the only one to see another caught bow-on in a yellow ray, reply by firing its gravity-beam right down the ray and into the green globe through the port from which the ray had issued. —  Wonder Story Annual - 1950
  • The prow, which is solid, has a flat terrace, on which, for the king's up-country excursions, they mount a small field-piece, a nine or a twelve pounder. —  THE ENGLISH GOVERNESS AT THE SIAMESE COURT
  • The water presently rippled under the boat's prow, and she yielded gently a little to the pressure on the sail, tipped herself gracefully a little over, and began to cleave her way through the rippling water in good earnest. —  Melbourne House
  • Up leap The waves to heaven; the shattered oars start forth Round swings the prow, and lets the waters sweep The broadside. —  The Aeneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor
  • So they loosen from the land He on the prow, a charger in his hand Flings forth the entrails, and outpours the wine And, crowned with olive chaplet, takes his stand Up-springs the favouring stern breeze, as in line With emulous sweep of oars, they brush the level brine CVI. —  The Aeneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor
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  1. French proue, from Old French, from Italian dialectal prua, from Vulgar Latin *prōda, alteration of Latin prōra, from Greek prōira; see per1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Old French proue, French proue = Provencal Spanish Portuguese proa = Italian prua, from Latin prora, from Greek πρῷρα, the bow of a ship, from πρό, before. Cf. prore.
  2. from Middle English prow, from Old French prou, prod, profit, advantage: origin uncertain. Cf. prowess.
  3. Middle English *prow (not found), from Old French prou, prod, prude, pros, proz, feminine prode, prude, good, excellent, brave, French preux = Provencal proz = Italian prode, brave, valiant, doughty. Cf. prow, n., and prude.
 

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