Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A ship's bow of such construction that it may be efficiently used in ramming.
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Examples
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Fifteen minutes later she was storming by, a half-mile to windward; a beautiful picture, long and white, with an incurving ram-bow, with buff-colored turrets and superstructure, and black guns bristling from all parts of her.
"Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea Morgan Robertson 1888
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Their impact below the water-line was deadly, and only equaled in effect by the work of the ram-bow, the blow of the ship as a whole -- the last glorious, suicidal charge on an enemy that had dismounted the guns, if such could happen.
"Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea Morgan Robertson 1888
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He could only surmise that she was a war-vessel from the ram-bow, -- a feature of the government model which had impressed him at Key West, -- and from the noise she was making.
"Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea Morgan Robertson 1888
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a man in advance of his time, proposed the construction of a steam-propelled warship, with a ram-bow, and with her guns protected by shields.
Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima John Richard Hale
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"In the middle o 'this argument the gunner protrudes his ram-bow from' is cabin, an 'brings it all to an' urried conclusion with some remarks suitable to 'is piebald warrant-rank.
Traffics and Discoveries Rudyard Kipling 1900
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