cutwater
/'kʌt.wɒ:tә/
📖 中文释义
- n. 船头破浪处, 桥脚的分水角
🧩 词形变化
原形 cutwate
📘 English Definition（英文释义）
- n. The fore part of a ship's prow, which cuts the water.
- n. A starling or other structure attached to the pier of a
- bridge, with an angle or edge directed up stream, in order better to
- resist the action of water, ice, etc.; the sharpened upper end of the
- pier itself.
- n. A sea bird of the Atlantic (Rhynchops nigra); -- called
- also black skimmer, scissorsbill, and razorbill. See Skimmer.