What is "bowsprits"

Usage examples of "bowsprits".

One of Gilaadessera’s bowsprits and foremasts collapsed in a tangle of broken spars and whiplashing, severed rigging.

Bellis looked from her window across the vista of reconfigured masts and bowsprits, a cityscape of beakheads and forecastles.

Paint, age, all the rubbish of urban chance brands squat towerblocks (on foredecks) and tenements (in the shadows of bowsprits).

Yet still they stayed locked together, their splintered bowsprits and jib-booms entangled like the tusks of two crazed beasts from a nightmare.

Half-hidden in the fog and estuary grasses, the ugly dragon heads on three bowsprits glared at us.

In the distance beyond him she saw a stand of kelp with a human growing from each great vine, looking like a seascape of bowsprits with interesting carvings, or like bait.

Receiving no answer to this remark, he relapsed into silence breaking it only at the end of a mile to recommend his master to pull in for the corner, unless he was wishful to throw them both out on to their bowsprits.

Below, here by the water-side, where the bowsprits of ships stretch across the footway, and almost thrust themselves into the windows, lie the noble American vessels which having made their Packet Service the finest in the world.