stem-piece

Drawing across her bow, he perceived that in accordance with the fanciful French taste, the upper part of her stem-piece was carved in the likeness of a huge drooping stalk, was painted green, and for thorns had copper spikes projecting from it here and there; the whole terminating in a symmetrical folded bulb of a bright red color.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

Astern of them was the picket-boat, a graceful feather of spray falling away on either side of the stem-piece.

The Long Trick 1886-1967 Bartimeus 1926

Then, very slowly, as the slack water urged it, I saw the red stem-piece of a rather large boat nosing slowly forward apparently from the cliff-face towards the great rock immediately in front of it.

Jim Davis John Masefield 1922

Dinsmore, according to the legend, had once lugged a hundred and sixty pounds to the Summit; McDonald had bent a horseshoe in his hands; Peterson had lifted the stem-piece out of a poling-boat lodged on the rocks below White Horse; Stick Jim had run down a moose and killed it with his knife.

The Winds of Chance Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

The much-esteemed stem-piece was from the butt of the smartest kind of a pasture oak.

Sailing Alone Around the World Joshua Slocum 1877

The stem-piece and stern-post were set up, and gradually the frame began to assume the shape of a vessel.

The Yacht Club or The Young Boat-Builder Oliver Optic 1859

The next steps were to set up the stern-post and the stem-piece, and Mr. Ramsay's patterns of these timbers were ready for use.

The Yacht Club or The Young Boat-Builder Oliver Optic 1859

Drawing across her bow, he perceived that in accordance with the fanciful French taste, the upper part of her stem-piece was carved in the likeness of a huge drooping stalk, was painted green, and for thorns had copper spikes projecting from it here and there; the whole terminating in a symmetrical folded bulb of a bright red colour.

Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855

Drawing across her bow, he perceived that in accordance with the fanciful French taste, the upper part of her stem-piece was carved in the likeness of a huge drooping stalk, was painted green, and for thorns had copper spikes projecting from it here and there; the whole terminating in a symmetrical folded bulb of a bright red color.

Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855

Drawing across her bow, he perceived that in accordance with the fanciful French taste, the upper part of her stem-piece was carved in the likeness of a huge drooping stalk, was painted green, and for thorns had copper spikes projecting from it here and there; the whole terminating in a symmetrical folded bulb of a bright red color.

Moby-Dick, or, The Whale 1851