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Cutwater   Listen
noun
Cutwater  n.  (Naut.)
1.
The fore part of a ship's prow, which cuts the water.
2.
A starling or other structure attached to the pier of a bridge, with an angle or edge directed up stream, in order better to resist the action of water, ice, etc.; the sharpened upper end of the pier itself.
3.
(Zool.) A sea bird of the Atlantic (Rhynchops nigra); called also black skimmer, scissorsbill, and razorbill. See Skimmer.






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"Cutwater" Quotes from Famous Books



... after her,—-there was something so much alike in our fortunes, that I always thought of her. Like myself, she had had her day of life and activity; we had both braved the storm and the breeze; her shattered bulwarks and worn cutwater attested that she had, like myself, not escaped her calamities. We both had survived our dangers, to be neglected and forgotten, and to lie rotting on the stream of life till the crumbling hand of Time should break us up, timber by timber. Is it any ...
— Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 (of 2) • Charles Lever

... time was the line drawn between the sailing vessel and the galley that the actual terminology used was entirely different; that is to say, the names of such things as masts, sails, rudder, tiller, stern, stempost, cutwater, etc., were not the same words; the sailor who used sails could not understand his brother mariner who used oars, and ...
— Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean • E. Hamilton Currey

... flattened in; and in considerably less than five minutes the Aurora was rushing along on a bowline with her lee covering-board nearly awash, and a clear, glassy surge spouting up on each side of her cutwater, and foaming away from her sharp bows with a hissing roar which was sweetest music just then to the ears of her ...
— The Voyage of the Aurora • Harry Collingwood

... depended upon how much of the aperture was submerged. And now it was directly before him and the gryf directly behind. There was no alternative—there was no other hope. The ape-man threw all the resources of his great strength into the last few strokes, extended his hands before him as a cutwater, submerged to the water's level and shot forward ...
— Tarzan the Terrible • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... Instead, however, of returning with his sword, he thought it as well to imitate the course pursued by so many of our valiant politicians, and quietly took a seat upon one of the lockers, where he waited with breathless suspense, as if expecting every minute to see the stranger's cutwater pierce the quarter of the "Two Marys." As for old Battle, he had left him with a benediction, to which he now added sundry prayers for his deliverance. It was not, he said, because he had any very strong fears of death, but solely in consideration ...
— The Life and Adventures of Maj. Roger Sherman Potter • "Pheleg Van Trusedale"



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