bluff-bowed

adj

bluff-bowed

adj

1

Nautical, Transport Archaic Having 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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