Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The wave set up at the bows of a vessel under way. The crest of the wave is inclined diagonally outward and aft on each side from the bow.
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Examples
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He was swimming at the surface, his great square head resting on the shallow bow-wave that his progress pushed just ahead of him.
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The run-up to this speech has been characterised by some epic spinning from shadowy American and Israeli ‘sources’ which has been creating a powerful bow-wave of feverish speculation and alarm.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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The run-up to this speech has been characterised by some epic spinning from shadowy American and Israeli ‘sources’ which has been creating a powerful bow-wave of feverish speculation and alarm.
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The run-up to this speech has been characterised by some epic spinning from shadowy American and Israeli ‘sources’ which has been creating a powerful bow-wave of feverish speculation and alarm.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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The slug created a downward bow-wave that caused edema and pressure on the optic chiasm.
Duma Key King, Stephen, 1947- 2008
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I saw that their legs did not move, as they did in crossing land, but remained fixed and triangulated, and that each foot raised a bow-wave which, supposing they were of the usual size, must be twenty feet high.
The White Mountains John Christopher 2003
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I saw that their legs did not move, as they did in crossing land, but remained fixed and triangulated, and that each foot raised a bow-wave which, supposing they were of the usual size, must be twenty feet high.
The White Mountains John Christopher 2003
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And second, we've been living off of seed corn, going back to about the beginning of the 1980s, in terms of what, then, was a bow-wave of procurement and modernization of equipment.
Press Briefing By Bob Bell ITY National Archives 1999
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Only the utter placidity of the water allowed him to discern the effect, and that just for an instant, before the ripples were cleanly split by the gentle bow-wave of the boat.
Emperor of Ansalon Niles, Douglas 1993
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Their car banked around a corner and screamed past them, kicking up a brief bow-wave of hot, dry, exhaust-tinged wind, motor howling like a Bane-Sidhe.
Omnibus Lackey, Mercedes 1993
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