Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- the timbers that form the bow of a ship.
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Examples
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I THEN gathered for myself staves, and stud-shafts, and crossbeams, and helves for each of the tools that I could work with; and bow-timbers and bolt-timbers for every work that I could perform—as many as I could carry of the comeliest trees.
The Early Middle Ages 500-1000 Robert Brentano 1964
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Them bow-timbers, too, are scarce thick enough for goin 'bump agin the ice o' Davis '
The World of Ice 1859
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Them bow-timbers, too, are scarce thick enough for goin 'bump agin the ice o'
The World of Ice 1859
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"I gathered for myself," writes the author, "cudgels, and stud-shafts, and horizontal shafts, and helves for each of the tools that I could work with, and bow-timbers and bolt-timbers for every work that I could perform, the comeliest trees, as many as I could carry.
Early Theories of Translation Flora Ross Amos
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