"spray bow" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1896, William Morris, The Well at the World's End: A Tale, Volume 2, page 94:",
          "text": "Now that level place, or bench-table went up to the very gushing and green bow of the water, so Ralph took Ursula's hand and led her along, she going a little after him, till he was close to the Well, and stood amidst the spray-bow thereof, so that he looked verily like one of the painted angels on the choir wall of St. Laurence of Upmeads.",
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