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The Ulstein X-Bow (or just X-BOW) is an inverted ship's bow designed by Ulstein Group to improve handling in rough seas, and to lower fuel consumption by causing less hydrodynamic drag. [1] It is shaped somewhat like a submarine's bow. [2] Bourbon Orca anchor tug, shown in 2012, was the first ship built with an Ulstein X-Bow in 2006.
Contrary Warriors Society (Hohnóhkao'o), [3] also known as the Inverted Bow-string Society. Its members, the Contrary Warriors, have proved their bravery by riding backward into battle. [9] Contrary Society (sing. Hohnohka, pl. Hohnóhkao'o), also known as Clown Society. [8]
Ten years after the company introduced the patented X-BOW® (Inverted bow) the number of such designs sold passed the 100-mark. [10] An add-on for the ship's stern, the X-STERN, [ 11 ] was launched in 2014, and received the Next Generation Ship Award 2015. [ 12 ]
Bow shape. Bow curve; Bullet Nose [1] ... V-shape, the shape that resembles the letter V, also known as the Chevron (which includes the inverted-V shape) V-shaped valley;
William Tell's apple-shot as depicted in Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia (1554 edition). Shooting an apple off one's child's head, also known as apple-shot (from German Apfelschuss) is a feat of marksmanship with a bow that occurs as a motif in a number of legends in Germanic folklore (and has been connected with non-European folklore).
Up bow or Sull'arco On a bowed string instrument, the note is played while drawing the bow upward. On a plucked string instrument played with a plectrum or pick (such as a guitar played pickstyle or a mandolin), the note is played with an upstroke. Down bow or Giù arco In contrast to the up bow, here the bow is drawn downward to create sound.
HMS Hawke, launched in 1891 from Chatham Dockyard, was the seventh Royal Navy warship to be named Hawke.She was an Edgar-class protected cruiser.. After commissioning in 1893, Hawke served in the Mediterranean Fleet, the International Squadron during the Cretan Revolt (1897–1898), and various other duties, including transporting relief crews to naval stations.
Lutes are stringed musical instruments that include a body and "a neck which serves both as a handle and as a means of stretching the strings beyond the body". [1]The lute family includes not only short-necked plucked lutes such as the lute, oud, pipa, guitar, citole, gittern, mandore, rubab, and gambus and long-necked plucked lutes such as banjo, tanbura, bağlama, bouzouki, veena, theorbo ...