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Meaning of "bowsprit"

bowsprit (noun) - a large spar extending forward from the stem of a ship; used to support the masts and sails
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  • A spar projecting over the prow of a sailing vessel to provide the means of adding sail surface.

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She had also lost her bowsprit.
The bowsprit and tiller were also carbon fibre.
A relatively small jib was set on the bowsprit.
The bowsprit joins the ship.
You might as well pray to a bowsprit.
The wooden bowsprit was later replaced by an inscribed stone pillar.
I remember losing my footing on the bowsprit.
Lie flat until our bowsprit tangles her rigging.
Because we will not return to sleeping on the bowsprit.
And his head was hung on the bowsprit as a warning to other pirates.
Five jibs are fixed to the bowsprit.
Wide bowsprit platform.
Supply had lost her foremast and bowsprit.
Bowsprit is undergoing surgery.
Total length of the bowsprit.

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The snout and bowsprit of the Brederode broke off.
And since today we can not sleep on the bowsprit.
The bowsprit should be edge down, with one flat side up.
She lost her bowsprit.
The bowsprit of a sailing vessel is a spar extending forward from the vessel 's prow.
The foresail is mounted on a bowsprit.
The integrated bowsprit allows to attach new generation sails such as gennaker and code 0.
Smaller changes and repairs also resulted in a longer bowsprit.
Xebecs had a long overhanging bowsprit and aft-set mizzen mast.
Just a squall from a poor old sailor man who took too much rum over his bowsprit.
In addition, the eagle figurehead on the bowsprit of the ship was replaced.
Almirante Cochrane also had a steam boat which was equipped with a torpedo on a bowsprit.
He hoisted himself onto the cutwater, and by the bowsprit arrived at the forecastle.
Another point of interest is the large mast-like object that is actually the bowsprit.
The band provides ballast and bowsprit to Nigel 's cosmical mind.
Sherman Zwicker does not have topmasts or a bowsprit.
Iron Duke had her bowsprit wrecked, but was otherwise little damaged.
I slept on the bowsprit.
Stainless steel bowsprit with single stem roller, Tack for asymmetrical spinnaker or Code 0.
Headsails are stowed by tying onto the bowsprit when not in use.
A schooner with no bowsprit is known as a " knockabout " schooner.
Maynard decapitated his corpse and hung his head on the bowsprit of his ship.
The bowsprit is almost longer than my whole boat . ”.
Jibboom A spar used to extend the bowsprit.
Backstays, topmasts, flying jib-stays, jib-booms and bowsprit shrouds shall meet the following minimum requirements.
Chris then finds himself hanging at the ship 's bowsprit.
Picture, Bowsprit not fully extended.
A further design feature, was her long bowsprit and clipper bow.
The refit converted the vessel into an iron-hulled barquentine with three masts and a bowsprit.
One hand, of course, must go to the bowsprit end to pass the.
Until the last year or two of her trading days, unlike today, she carried a bowsprit.
Bowsprit ( carbon or aluminum ) in option.
She was barque-rigged with three pole masts and a bowsprit.
Off the bowsprit!
Carbon mast with sweep back spreaders, boom and bowsprit.

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