/ · 1894 Brewer’s · B · Bow (to rhyme with now)
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The foreend of a boat or ship. (Danish and Norwegian, boug or bov, a shoulder; Icelandic, bogr.)
On the bow. Within a range of 45° on one side or the other of the prow.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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