prow

keula puhekieltä The fore part of a vessel; the bow; the stem; hence, the vessel itself.
Milton

The floating vessel swum / Uplifted, and secure with beaked prow / rode tilting o'er the waves.

We were already rather close in; but I ordered the U-33's prow turned inshore and we crept slowly along, constantly dipping up the water and tasting it to assure ourselves that we didn't get outside the fresh-water current.

For they be two the prowest knights on ground, / And oft approu’d in many hard assay