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bow-guards

bow-guards is the plural of bow-guard.

Meaning of bow-guard

Noun

bow-guard (plural bow-guards)

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

Questions about bow-guards

What is bow-guards the plural of?
Bow-guards is the plural of bow-guard.

Words near bow-guards in the dictionary

  1. bow-chicka-bow-wow
  2. bow-chicka-wow-wow
  3. bow-faced
  4. bow-fronted
  5. bow-guard
  6. bow-guards
  7. bow-legged
  8. bow-legged wi' brass
  9. bow-leggedness
  10. bow-riding
  11. bow-tie

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