A spar running out
from ship's stem
to which forestays
are fastened.
I note how Apple's domestic lexicon
tracks with the Oxford English Dic-
tionary's definition of a bowsprit,
with no litigation over plagiarism.
Thinking different, yielding to the
temptations of conformity, or going
soft in concessions to convenience?
J.B. Sykes
editor
The Concise Oxford
Dictionary of Current
English
Oxford University Press, 1964©
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