Prow

Part of speech: noun (n.)

The fore part of a vessel; the bow; the stem; hence, the vessel itself. Wordsworth. The floating vessel swum Uplifted, and secure with beaked prow rode tilting o'er the waves. Milton.

Part of speech: noun (n.)

See Proa.

Part of speech: noun (n.)

Benefit; profit; good; advantage. [Obs.] That shall be for your hele and for your prow. Chaucer.

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

Valiant; brave; gallant; courageous. [Archaic] Tennyson. The prowest knight that ever field did fight. Spenser.