prow
noun/praʊ/
/praʊ/
(formal or literary)- the pointed front part of a ship or boatTopics Transport by waterc2Word Originmid 16th cent.: from Old French proue, from Provençal proa, probably via Latin from Greek prōira, from a base represented by Latin pro ‘in front’.
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