• IPA: /pɹaʊ/

prow (plural prows)

1. (nautical) The front part of a vessel

   Synonyms: beak, bow, forestem, prore, stem

   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IV

     We were already rather close in; but I ordered the U-33's prow turned inshore and we crept slowly along, constantly dipping up the water and tasting it to assure ourselves that we didn't get outside the fresh-water current.

2. A vessel

• French: proue
• German: Bug, Bugüberhang
• Italian: prua, prora
• Portuguese: proa
• Russian: нос
• Spanish: proa

prow (comparative prower, superlative prowest)

1. (archaic) Brave, valiant, gallant.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938 ↗, book II, canto III:

     For they be two the prowest knights on ground, / And oft approu’d in many hard assay {{...}

• prowess

prow (plural prows)

1. Alternative form of proa