prow
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- 9
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Definition of prow
5 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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The front part of a vessel.
“The floating vessel swum / Uplifted, and secure with beaked prow / rode tilting o'er the waves.”
“We were already rather close in; but I ordered the U-33's prow turned inshore and we crept slowly along, constantly dipping up the water and tasting it to assure ourselves that we didn't get outside the fresh-water current.”
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noun
-
The front part of a vessel.
“The floating vessel swum / Uplifted, and secure with beaked prow / rode tilting o'er the waves.”
“We were already rather close in; but I ordered the U-33's prow turned inshore and we crept slowly along, constantly dipping up the water and tasting it to assure ourselves that we didn't get outside the fresh-water current.”
- A vessel.
- (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of proa.
adj
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(archaic)Brave, valiant, gallant.
“For they be two the prowest knights on ground, / And oft approu’d in many hard assay […]”
name
- A surname.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle French proue, proe, from Ligurian prua, proa, from Latin prōra, from Ancient Greek πρῷρα (prōîra).
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