prow
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See also: Prow
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle French proue, proe, from Ligurian prua, proa, from Latin prōra, from Ancient Greek πρῷρα (prôira).
Noun
prow (plural prows)
- (nautical) The front part of a vessel
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost:
- The floating vessel swum / Uplifted, and secure with beaked prow / rode tilting o'er the waves.
- 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter IV, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
- 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
Translations
fore part of a vessel; bow
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Etymology 2
From Middle English prow, from Old French prou, from Late Latin prode; more at proud.
Adjective
prow (comparative prower, superlative prowest)
- (archaic) Brave, valiant, gallant. [2]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- For they be two the prowest knights on ground, / And oft approu’d in many hard assay […]
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References
- “Principles of Engliſh Pronunciation.” in John Walker, A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary […] , London: Sold by G. G. J. and J. Robinſon, Paternoſter Row; and T. Cadell, in the Strand, 1791, →OCLC, page 37.
Etymology 3
Noun
prow (plural prows)
- Alternative form of proa
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