Bluff-bowed

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Having broad and flat bows. archaic

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

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

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