1 A bare bamboo washing-pole, angled like the bowsprit of a yacht, projects above the street.

2 The bowsprit, mast and sails were covered in black crepe.

3 The bowsprit was undamaged, but loose at the heel.

4 Spritsail Yard top view of the bowsprit and spritsail yard blocks, almost ready to be rigged.

5 Bowsprit Blocks Side view of the bowsprit: Shows the Fore Mast stay block, and the bobstay blocks.

6 Bowsprit Side view of the bowsprit in work progress, not finished.

7 The Hispaniola rolled steadily, dipping her bowsprit nod and then with a whiff of spray.

8 We could dispense some justice and hang him from the bowsprit to save the courts the trouble.

9 His small, glistening secretary plunged along in front of him like a dolphin under the bowsprit.

10 The martingale guy was snapped at the base near the bowsprit cap.

11 He was eventually killed by a British naval force, and his head, with its great black beard, was affixed to the end of his bowsprit.

12 A small sloop with a mainsail, jib, and keel but no bowsprit.

13 Spotswood cut off Blackbeard's head and stuck it on the bowsprit of his ship and sailed back to his town.