noun, masculine/bo.pʁe/plural: beauprés
bowsprit
Borrowed from Middle Dutch boechspriet (Modern Dutch boegspriet). Further reading below gives another etymology which might be more relevant as establishing word roots to older references.
/bo.pʁe/
bowsprit
Borrowed from Middle Dutch boechspriet (Modern Dutch boegspriet). Further reading below gives another etymology which might be more relevant as establishing word roots to older references.