Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Nautical, having an upright stem, or one with but little rake forward.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Naut.) Built with the stem nearly straight up and down.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective nautical Built with the
stern nearly straight up and down.
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Examples
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Its neighbour is the bluff-headed Jebel el-Wásil of
The Land of Midian 2003
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Its neighbour is the bluff-headed Jebel el-Wásil of Marwát; whilst the trap-blocks, already mentioned as the Jibál el-Akábil, finish the circle.
The Land of Midian — Volume 2 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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Leaving behind us the town at the bottom of its deep bay, we set out to explore a bluff-headed parallelogramical promontory, bounded by Thurso
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