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prow |
5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Prow \Prow\, a. [Compar. {Prower}; superl. {Prowest}.] [OF. prou, preu, F. preux, fr L. pro, prod, in prodesse to be useful. See {Pro-}, and cf {Prude}.] Valiant; brave; gallant; courageous. [Archaic] --Tennyson. The prowest knight that ever field did fight. --Spenser. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Prow \Prow\, n. [OE. & OF prou. See {Prow}, a.] Benefit; profit; good; advantage. [Obs.] That shall be for your hele and for your prow. --Chaucer. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Prow \Prow\, n. [F. proue (cf. Sp & Pg proa, It prua), L. prora, Gr ?, akin to ? before See {Pro-}, and cf {Prore}.] The fore part of a vessel; the bow; the stem; hence the vessel itself --Wordsworth. The floating vessel swum Uplifted, and secure with beaked prow rode tilting o'er the waves. --Milton. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Prow \Prow\, n. See {Proa}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: prow n : front part of a vessel or aircraft; "he pointed the bow of the boat toward the finish line" [syn: {bow}, {fore}, {stem}]
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