"bowsprit" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈbəʊspɹɪt/ Forms: bowsprits [plural]
Etymology: First attested in late 13th century. Probably borrowed from Middle Low German bochspret, from boch (“bow of a ship”) + spret (“pole”) (related to Old English spreot and English sprout). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|gml|bochspret}} Middle Low German bochspret, {{affix|gml|boch|spret|gloss1=bow of a ship|gloss2=pole|nocat=1}} boch (“bow of a ship”) + spret (“pole”), {{cog|ang|spreot}} Old English spreot, {{cog|en|sprout}} English sprout Head templates: {{en-noun}} bowsprit (plural bowsprits)
  1. (nautical) A spar projecting over the prow of a sailing vessel to provide the means of adding sail surface. Wikipedia link: bowsprit Categories (topical): Ship parts Synonyms: boltsprit Derived forms: bowspritted, reefing bowsprit Translations (spar projecting over the prow of a sailing vessel): бушприт (bušprit) [masculine] (Bulgarian), bauprès [masculine] (Catalan), 船首斜桅 (chuánshǒu xiéwéi) (Chinese Mandarin), 艏斜桅 (shǒuxiéwéi) (Chinese Mandarin), čelen [masculine] (Czech), bovspryd [neuter] (Danish), boegspriet [feminine] (Dutch), busprito (Esperanto), pukspriit (Estonian), kokkapuu (Finnish), keulapuomi (Finnish), puksprööti (Finnish), beaupré [masculine] (French), Bugspriet [masculine, neuter] (German), bompresso [masculine] (Italian), バウスプリット (bausupuritto) (Japanese), forþstefn [masculine] (Old English), forþstemn [masculine] (Old English), bukszpryt [masculine] (Polish), dziobak [masculine] (Polish), gurupés [masculine] (Portuguese), bompres [neuter] (Romanian), бушпри́т (bušprít) [masculine] (Russian), bauprés [masculine] (Spanish), dasturi (Swahili), bogspröt (Swedish)

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.