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cutwater, cut-water|ˈkʌtˌwɔːtə(r)|
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.
1644J. Winthrop Hist. New Engl. (1853) II. 239 It struck against the head of a bolt in the cut-water of the Dartmouth ship, and went no further. 1712W. Rogers Voy. 218 Her Rudder and Cut-water were eaten to pieces. 1789G. Vassa Life (1792) 102 She struck our ship with her cutwater. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. I. (1856) 477 Stretching from end to end, and shielded at the stem and stern by cutwaters of bone. 1866R. M. Ballantyne Shifting Winds xiii. (1881) 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.
1776G. Semple Building in Water 100 Brace your Cut-water Pile with temporary Braces. Ibid. 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.
1732Mortimer in Phil. Trans. XXXVII. 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. 1787Latham Hist. Birds App. i. 269 The head preponderates for some distance, when the bill is seen to cut the water; hence the name of Cut-water. 1844J. E. De Kay Zool. N.Y. ii. 297 The..Cut-water..reaches our coast from tropical America in May. |