Annabeth ducked as a cable flew over her head and. wrapped itself around the bowsprit.
Rick Riordan, The Sea of Monsters(2006)
She was twenty-two feet long, with a two-foot wooden bowsprit sticking from her nose, a stainless steel pulpit above it.
Gary Paulsen, The Voyage Of The Frog(1989)
Hamilton cursed and drifted onward until the bowsprit speared a metal barge.
Jack Gantos, Hole in My Life(2002)