bluff-bowed

adjective

Having broad and flat bows.

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Meanings

adjectivebluff-bowed (comparative more bluff-bowed, superlative most bluff-bowed)

comparative more bluff-bowed · superlative most bluff-bowed

  1. archaicnauticalHaving broad and flat bows.

    “[...] he thereby may be said to transform himself from a bluff-bowed sluggish galliot into a sharppointed New York pilot-boat."

    1851, Herman Melville, chapter 61, in Moby Dick
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