The Da Vinci Code vocabulary

The prow of the boat is partially unbroken, and is drawn just balancing upon the monster's spine; and standing in that prow, for that one single incomputable flash of time, you behold an oarsman, half shrouded by the incensed boiling spout of the whale, and in the act of leaping, as if from a precipice.

Herman Melville. Moby Dick

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There were four large suites in the nose of the boat— the prow, I supposed you'd call it,

Ruth Ware. The Woman in Cabin 10, p.35 (2016)

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I then took my tackling, and, fastening a hook to the hole at the prow of each, I tied all the cords together at the end.

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be sure of arriving before the vessel, wait until nothing but the tiniest slice of blue still separates the questing prow from the first petal of the flower towards which it is steering.

Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 2]

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His ears, I had never noticed before, were fairly small and set close to his head, and combined with his plastered hair they now gave his bold nose and cheekbones the sharp look of a prow.

John Knowles. A Separate Peace, p.27 (1959)