bow wave
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.13 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "But in the half light of dawn, at about half past four, a destroyer came towards them from the west, throwing a deep, feathery bow wave of white foam aside as she cut through the water, bearing down on them."
- ""They are not able to service every railway contract going to the market at the same time. It creates an artificial bow-wave of work and in some cases, like TransPennine, the nature of the infrastructure work means we want some continuity," he said."