bow-guard

plural bow-guards · alternative bow guard

1. A protective structure on the bow of a boat.

   That man who is now stepping from the wet logs to the bow-guards of the Marion, how can he ever cut down a tree?

   1878, Belford's Monthly Magazine - Volume 3, page 660

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   It is possible that the bronze part of the bow-guard was embedded in a wooden armature in some way that obviated the use of pegs or edging on the bronze itself.

   1978, Philip Denwood, Arts of the Eurasian Steppelands, →ISBN, page 4

   It was part of a scheme that included aluminum rubrails welded the length of the hull and a Schedule 80 bow-guard (top photo page 216).

   2003, Scott Bannerot, Wendy Bannerot, Cruisers Handbook of Fishing 2/E, →ISBN, page 214

2. alternativeAlternative form of bowguard.

   'Where did you get your bow-guard?' 'I made it.'

   2004, Oliver La Farge, Laughing Boy, →ISBN, page 13

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   Having noted T'ang Lan's remarks, Watson updated and amended his earlier views and accepted the device as a pi, or bow-guard, somehow used to "straiten" [sic] or guard an unstrung compound bow.

   1991, Julia Ching, R. W. L. Guisso, Sages and Filial Sons, →ISBN, page 183

   When you get married you're supposed to be bashful and eat like this,' and he shaded his eyes with his left wrist, where a bow-guard would be worn.

   1995, John Miles Foley, The Singer of Tales in Performance, →ISBN, page 31