The bowsprit of a sailing vessel is a spar extending forward from the vessel's prow. Small boulders at the prow or stern of each grave represented anchors. Between the two faces juts a massive prow. The metaphor derives from the carved figurehead at the prow of a sailing ship. This is a bulbous bow with a wave-deflecting axe-shape at the top of the prow. Set was depicted standing on the prow of Ra's barge defeating the dark serpent Apep. The stern may or may not feature okil carvings like the prow. Salcedo ordered installed in the prow of the galley a stone-throwing mortar. Prow and soul / moored in the muddy port of the contented beast! The figurehead on the prow holds an hourglass representing time. With the lifeboats inoperable, the crew gather on the prow as the ship goes down. It had the high prow of the later longships. Other planks form a pathway leading the prow. The dock grapples are at the prow of the ship. And Statius (1st century) makes a Triton figurehead adorn the prow of the "Argo".