bluff-bowed
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English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]bluff-bowed (comparative more bluff-bowed, superlative most bluff-bowed)
- (nautical, archaic) Having broad and flat bows.
- 1851, Herman Melville, chapter 61, in Moby Dick:
- “[...] he thereby may be said to transform himself from a bluff-bowed sluggish galliot into a sharppointed New York pilot-boat."
References
[edit]- “bluff-bowed”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.