Prow
[praʊ]
Definition
(n.) The fore part of a vessel; the bow; the stem; hence, the vessel itself.
(n.) See Proa.
(superl.) Valiant; brave; gallant; courageous.
(a.) Benefit; profit; good; advantage.
Edited by Anselm
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Bow, stern, beak.
Checker: Virgil
Definition
n. the forepart of a ship: the bow or beak.
Typist: Ralph
Examples
- The ship's prow cleaved on, with a faint noise of cleavage, into the complete night, without knowing, without seeing, only surging on. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Let the heart swell into what discord it will, thus plays the rippling water on the prow of the ferry-boat ever the same tune. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- One after another, the voices of business or pleasure died away; all on the boat were sleeping, and the ripples at the prow were plainly heard. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Look out, Gurt; I'm going to pick off that fellow standing up in the prow. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- I sat at the prow, watching our course; when suddenly I heard the waters break with redoubled fury. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Instantly with the shock of impact I reversed my engine, but my prow was wedged in the hole it had made in the battleship's stern. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Like a bolt from a crossbow my splendid craft shot its steel prow straight at the whirring propellers of the giant above us. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- I wish Mr. Micawber to take his stand upon that vessel's prow, and firmly say, “This country I am come to conquer! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I then took my tackling, and, fastening a hook to the hole at the prow of each, I tied all the cords together at the end. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- He saw his galleys rammed by the sharp prows of other galleys; his fighting-men shot down; his ships boarded. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Checker: Luther