Nose of a ship

The answer

PROW

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the PROW answer page.

Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1964. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for PROW

Every other clue in this collection answered by PROW, most used first.

• Ship's front - used 59 times, most recently in 2026
• Front of a ship - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
• Part of a ship - used 16 times, most recently in 2009
• Figurehead's place - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Boat front - used 13 times, most recently in 2015
• Boat's front - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• Ship's bow - used 12 times, most recently in 2023
• Stem - used 12 times, most recently in 2021
• Frigate's front - used 11 times, most recently in 2020
• Bow - used 10 times, most recently in 2011
• Place for a figurehead - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Bow of a ship - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
• Ship part - used 9 times, most recently in 2009
• Front of a boat - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
• Stern's opposite - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• Figurehead spot - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
• Front of a frigate - used 6 times, most recently in 2018

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Jason's ship - ARGO, used 450 times
• Ship of 1492 - NINA, used 112 times
• Golden Fleece ship - ARGO, used 97 times
• Nose-in-the-air type - SNOB, used 49 times
• Offend the nose - REEK, used 48 times
• Ship wood - TEAK, used 46 times

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