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Definition of Bowsprits
1. bowsprit [n] - See also: bowsprit
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bowsprits
Literary usage of Bowsprits
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Lusiad: Or, The Discovery of India: an Epic Poem by Luís de Camões, William Julius Mickle (1809)
"Slow past the hour, when to the trembling shore In awful pomp the victor-navy
bore: Terrific, nodding on, the bowsprits bend, And the red streamers other ..."
2. A Collection of Statutes Connected with the General Administration of the by Great Britain, William David Evans, Anthony Hammond, Thomas Colpitts Granger (1836)
"Hundred and Twenty-one an Act made in the Forty- sixth Year of his late Majesty
for permitting the Importation of Masts, Yards, bowsprits and Timber fit ..."
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