cutwater
Americannoun
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Nautical.
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the forward edge of the stem of a vessel, dividing the water as the vessel advances.
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a vertical timber construction set forward of and following the stem of a wooden vessel below the water line, usually curving forward above the water line to support a beak-head or figurehead.
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Civil Engineering. a sharply pointed upstream face of a bridge pier, for resisting the effects of moving water or ice.
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Origin of cutwater
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Among shipowners he was famed for reintroducing the vertical figurehead, a figure that stood upright on the cutwater instead of hanging horizontally over the sea.
From Time Magazine Archive
Other blazes had mysteriously broken out from her cutwater to her overhanging stern.
From Time Magazine Archive
She circled the deck house six times, then went up 247 to the bow and stared down the cutwater at the phosphorescence.
From The Pagan Madonna by W. H. D. (William Henry Dethlef) Koerner
The side plank ran past the forward edge of the stem and was mitered to form a sharp cutwater.
From The Migrations of an American Boat Type by Howard I. (Howard Irving) Chapelle
Jacob, who is that tall old chap, with such a devil of a cutwater, which I met just now with master?
From Jacob Faithful by Frederick Marryat
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