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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 517 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PROW , the fore-See also:

part of a See also:ship, the See also:stem and its surrounding parts, hence used like " See also:keel," by See also:metonymy, of the ship itself. It was in old See also:naval parlance applied to the See also:battery of guns placed in the fore See also:gun-See also:deck. The Fr. proue and cognate forms (Ital. See also:proa, See also:Port. and Span. proa, of which the See also:English is an See also:adaptation) represent See also:Lat. prora, itself adapted from Gr. irpuipa, formed fromapo, before, in front. From this word must be distinguished an obsolete " prow," brave, valiant, now only surviving in prowess," and representing O.

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