Ram Bow

Fifteen minutes later she was storming by, a half-mile to windward; a beautiful picture, long and white, with an incurving ram-bow, with buff-colored turrets and superstructure, and black guns bristling from all parts of her. ❋ Morgan Robertson (1888)

Their impact below the water-line was deadly, and only equaled in effect by the work of the ram-bow, the blow of the ship as a whole -- the last glorious, suicidal charge on an enemy that had dismounted the guns, if such could happen. ❋ Morgan Robertson (1888)

He could only surmise that she was a war-vessel from the ram-bow, -- a feature of the government model which had impressed him at Key West, -- and from the noise she was making. ❋ Morgan Robertson (1888)

a man in advance of his time, proposed the construction of a steam-propelled warship, with a ram-bow, and with her guns protected by shields. ❋ John Richard Hale (N/A)

"In the middle o 'this argument the gunner protrudes his ram-bow from' is cabin, an 'brings it all to an' urried conclusion with some remarks suitable to 'is piebald warrant-rank. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)