bow-guard

See also: bowguard and bow guard

English

Alternative forms

• bow guard

Noun

bow-guard (plural bow-guards)

1. A protective structure on the bow of a boat.
   • 1878, Belford's Monthly Magazine - Volume 3, page 660:

     That man who is now stepping from the wet logs to the bow-guards of the Marion, how can he ever cut down a tree?

   • 1978, Philip Denwood, Arts of the Eurasian Steppelands, →ISBN, page 4:

     It is possible that the bronze part of the bow-guard was embedded in a wooden armature in some way that obviated the use of pegs or edging on the bronze itself.

   • 2003, Scott Bannerot, Wendy Bannerot, Cruisers Handbook of Fishing 2/E, →ISBN, page 214:

     It was part of a scheme that included aluminum rubrails welded the length of the hull and a Schedule 80 bow-guard (top photo page 216).

2. Alternative form of bowguard
   • 1991, Julia Ching, R. W. L. Guisso, Sages and Filial Sons, →ISBN, page 183:

     Having noted T'ang Lan's remarks, Watson updated and amended his earlier views and accepted the device as a pi, or bow-guard, somehow used to "straiten" [sic] or guard an unstrung compound bow.

   • 1995, John Miles Foley, The Singer of Tales in Performance, →ISBN, page 31:

     When you get married you're supposed to be bashful and eat like this,' and he shaded his eyes with his left wrist, where a bow-guard would be worn.

   • 2004, Oliver La Farge, Laughing Boy, →ISBN, page 13:

     'Where did you get your bow-guard?' 'I made it.'