 | William Falconer, James Stanier Clarke - Shipwrecks - 1804 - 292 pages
...highest deck of a Ship. The Bow, is the rounding part of a Ship's side forward, beginning at the place .where the planks arch inwards, and terminating where they close at the Stem, or Prow. FALCONER. PAGE 103. 1. 13 when past the Beam it files, On the BEAM, implies any distance from the Ship... | |
 | J. J. Moore - English language - 1805 - 300 pages
...what place are 'you going ? ' BOW, the rounding part ot a ship's side forward, beginning where trie planks arch inwards, and terminating where they close, at the stem or prow. On the Bow, an arch of the horizon, (not exceeding 4J degrees,) comprehended between some distant object,... | |
 | William Falconer - English poetry - 1808 - 166 pages
...Bow.— P. 89. 1. 17. The poop is the highest and hindmost deck of a ship. The bow is the rounding part of a ship's side forward, beginning where the...arch inwards, and terminating where they close at the stern or prow. *•*' NOTES. 135 Past the beam.— P. 104. 1. 5. On the beam, implies any distance... | |
 | William Falconer - 1868 - 180 pages
...highest deck of a ship. The bow is the rounding part of a ship's side forward, beginning at the place where the planks arch inwards, and terminating where they close at the stern or prow. While Rodmond, fearful of some neighbouring shore, Cries, ever and anon, " Look out... | |
 | William Falconer, Thomas Park - English poetry - 1809 - 184 pages
...ship. The bow is tje ronnding part of a ship's aide forward, heginning at the place where the plank? arch inwards, and terminating where they close at the stem or prow. Faintly along the larboard bow descried, As o'er its monntain tops the lightnings glide ; High o'er... | |
 | William Falconer - 1822 - 192 pages
...highest deck of a ship. The time is the rounding part of a ship's side forward, beginning at the place where the planks arch inwards, and terminating where they close at the stem or prow. PAGE 108,1.19. u:ln'!> past the team it Jlies. On the beam, implies any distance from the ship on a... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 322 pages
...highest deck of a ship. The lion: is the rounding part of a ship's side forward, beginning at the place where the planks arch inwards, and terminating where they close at the stern or prow. Faintly along the larboard bow descried, As o'er its mountain tops the lightnings glide;... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 888 pages
...through any medium*." Trtàté de On tie Bow, in Navigation, an arch of the horizon ffavire. comprehended between some distant object and that point of the compass which is right a-head, or to which the ship's stem is directed. The phrase is equally applicable when the object is beheld... | |
 | William James - 1826 - 624 pages
...Boarding-netting, network triced round the ship to prevent the boarders from entering. Bar, a the rounding part of a ship's side forward, beginning where the...terminating where they close at the stem or prow. On the boic, an arch of the horizon, not exceeding 45 degrees, comprehended between some distant object... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 436 pages
...BEARING. Bow, in ship-building, the rounding part of a ship's side forward, beginning at the place where the planks arch inwards; and terminating where they close, at the stem or prow. It is proved by ri variety of experiments that a ship with a narrow bow is much better calculated for... | |
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Bow, is the rounding part of a ship's side forward, beginning where the planks arch inwards, and terminating where they close at the stem or prow. On the bow, an arch of the horizon, not exceeding 45 degrees. 
