cutwatern.
/ˈkʌtˌwɔːtə/, U.S. /ˈkədˌwɔdər/, /ˈkədˌwɑdər/ 1. The knee of the head of a ship, etc., which serves to divide the water before it reaches the bow; also, the forward edge of the stem or prow.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > fore part of vessel > [noun] > forward edge
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1644 J. Winthrop Hist. New Eng. (1826) (modernized text) II. 195 It struck against the head of a bolt in the cut-water of the Dartmouth ship, and went no further.
1712 W. Rogers Cruising Voy. 218 Her Rudder and Cut-water were eaten to pieces.
1789 G. Vassa Life (1792) 102 She struck our ship with her cutwater.
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. l. 477 Stretching from end to end, and shielded at the stem and stern by cutwaters of bone.
1866 R. M. Ballantyne Shifting Winds xiii. 132 The steamer..sent the cutwater crashing through bulwark, plank, and beam.
2. The wedge-shaped end of the pier of a bridge which serves to divide the current, break up masses of ice, etc., flowing against the pier.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [noun] > bridge > parts of
pierlOE
bridge foota1450
heada1450
staddling1461
foota1500
bridge end1515
jowel1516
causey1523
starling?c1684
rib1735
spur1736
icebreaker1744
jetty1772
cutwater1776
roadway1798
sleeper1823
water-breaker1823
centrya1834
stem1835
suspension-tower1842
cantilever1850
semi-beam1850
pylon1851
half-chess1853
span1862
sway-bracing1864
needle-beam1867
ice apron1871
newel1882
flood-arch1891
needle girder1898
sway-brace1909
trough flooring1911
1776 G. Semple Treat. Building in Water 100 Brace your Cut-water Pile with temporary Braces.
1776 G. Semple Treat. Building in Water 101 The Cut-water in the first projecting Course of the Pier.
3. An American sea-fowl, the Skimmer, Rhynchops nigra, allied to the terns.
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > member of genus Rhynchops > rhynchops nigra (black skimmer)
cutwater1733
razorbill1791
shear-bill1793
shearwater1794
scissor beak1833
scissorbill1833
1733 Philos. Trans. 1731–2 (Royal Soc.) 37 449 Larus major rostro inæquali. The Cut-Water. They probably take their English Name from their commonly flying close to the Water, from the Surface whereof they seem to scoop up some Food with the under Part of their Bill, which is much longer than the upper.
1787 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds Suppl. I. App. i. 269 The head preponderates for some distance, when the bill is seen to cut the water; hence the name of Cut-water.
1844 J. E. De Kay Zool. N.-Y. ii. 297 The..Cut-water..reaches our coast from tropical America in May.
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