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bowfoil

bowfoil is the alternative form of bow foil.

Meaning of bow foil

Noun

bow foil (plural bow foils)

  1. A retractable underwater wing attached to the bow of a ship.

Forms of bowfoil

pluralbowfoils

Questions about bowfoil

What is bowfoil the alternative form of?
Bowfoil is the alternative form of bow foil.

Words near bowfoil in the dictionary

  1. bowfish
  2. bowfisher
  3. bowfisherman
  4. bowfishers
  5. bowfishing
  6. bowfoil
  7. bowframe
  8. bowfront
  9. bowge
  10. bowged
  11. bowges

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bowfoil (page history and authors); bow foil (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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