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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Cf.

the stem of a tree, and

An upright wooden or iron post in a boat or on a dock, used in veering or fastening ropes.

Bollard timber

(Naut.)

a timber, also called a knighthead, rising just within the stem in a ship, on either side of the bowsprit, to secure its end.