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Cutwater n. (Naut.)

The fore part of a ship's prow, which cuts the water.

A starling or other structure attached to the pier of a bridge, with an angle or edge directed up stream, in order better to resist the action of water, ice, etc.; the sharpened upper end of the pier itself.

(Zool.) A sea bird of the Atlantic (Rhynchops nigra); called also black skimmer, scissorsbill, and razorbill. See Skimmer.

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"Cutwater" Quotes from Famous Books

... thought it as well to imitate the course pursued by so many of our valiant politicians, and quietly took a seat upon one of the lockers, where he waited with breathless suspense, as if expecting every minute to see the stranger's cutwater pierce the quarter of the "Two Marys." As for old Battle, he had left him with a benediction, to which he now added sundry prayers for his deliverance. It was not, he said, because he had any very strong fears of death, but solely in consideration of what his country ...

— The Life and Adventures of Maj. Roger Sherman Potter • "Pheleg Van Trusedale"

... us came the toiling ship, the dip of oars resonant in the hollow fog and a ripple babbling on her cutwater plainly discernible. ...

— Gulliver of Mars • Edwin L. Arnold

... this time was the line drawn between the sailing vessel and the galley that the actual terminology used was entirely different; that is to say, the names of such things as masts, sails, rudder, tiller, stern, stempost, cutwater, etc., were not the same words; the sailor who used sails could not understand his brother mariner who used oars, and ...

— Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean • E. Hamilton Currey