bluff-bowed

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English

Adjective

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

  1. (nautical, archaic) Having broad and flat bows.
    • 1851, Herman Melville, chapter 61, in Moby Dick:
      “[...] 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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