1ship.bowsprit, a large boom running out from the stem of a vessel:
(
1337-39
)
pro quodam sacco depicto ex armis Angleterrae et posito super le bowesprete
ii 25
(
1400-02
)
et in le sterne cum una magna aquila aurea stante in le bowesprete
i 26
(
1409-11
)
[...] un sailyerd, un bowespret, un topchastiell qui fuist pertenant a la nief appellé le Holk [...] une mast, un trief ové .iiij. bonetz, un topchastiell, un seilyerde, un bowespret, un rakke, un trusparaill, un cable [...]
ii 109
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bowespret (1337-39)