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bluff-bowed

bluff-bowed adjective: having broad and flat bows.

Adjective

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

  1. (archaic) Having broad and flat bows.
    • “[...] he thereby may be said to transform himself from a bluff-bowed sluggish galliot into a sharppointed New York pilot-boat."1851, Herman Melville, chapter 61, in Moby Dick

Forms of bluff-bowed

comparativemore bluff-bowed
superlativemost bluff-bowed

Questions about bluff-bowed

What does bluff-bowed mean?
Bluff-bowed means having broad and flat bows.
What part of speech is bluff-bowed?
Bluff-bowed is an adjective.

Words near bluff-bowed in the dictionary

  1. bluff catcher
  2. bluff catchers
  3. bluff charge
  4. bluff charges
  5. bluff out
  6. bluff-bowed
  7. bluff-headed
  8. bluffable
  9. bluffed
  10. bluffed out
  11. bluffer

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