prow
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Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle French proue, from Genoese Italian prua, proa, from Latin prora, from Ancient Greek πρῷρα (prōîra).
Noun[edit]
prow (plural prows)
- (nautical) The fore part of a vessel; the bow; the stem; hence, the vessel itself.
- Milton
- The floating vessel swum / Uplifted, and secure with beaked prow / rode tilting o'er the waves.
- 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IV
- 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.
- Milton
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Translations[edit]
fore part of a vessel; bow
Etymology 2[edit]
From Middle English, from Old French prou, from Late Latin prode; more at proud.
Adjective[edit]
prow (comparative prower, superlative prowest)
- (archaic) Brave, valiant, gallant. [1]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Canto II.iii
- For they be two the prowest knights on ground, / And oft approu’d in many hard assay
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Canto II.iii
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Etymology 3[edit]
Noun[edit]
prow (plural prows)
- Alternative form of proa.
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