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Words related to figurehead

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  • billethead

    a carved ornamental scroll or volute terminating a stem or cutwater at its upper end in place of a figurehead.

  • cat-built

    (of a sailing vessel) having a bluff bow and straight stern without a figurehead.

  • cutwater

    the forward part of the stem of a vessel, which cuts through the water

  • headrail

    a railing on a sailing vessel, extending forward from abaft the bow to the back of the figurehead.

  • trailboard

    an ornamented board extending on each side of the bow of a vessel from a figurehead or the like to abaft the hawse.
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