bluff-bowed

English

Adjective

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

1. (nautical) 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."

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “bluff-bowed”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)