സന്ദർഭത്തെ ആശ്രയിച്ച് "പ്രോ" എന്ന വാക്കിന് നിരവധി നിഘണ്ടു അർത്ഥങ്ങളുണ്ട്:
പൊതുവെ, "പ്രോ" എന്ന വാക്ക് എന്തിന്റെയെങ്കിലും മുന്നിലേക്ക് അഭിമുഖീകരിക്കുന്ന ഭാഗത്തെ സൂചിപ്പിക്കുന്നു. , അത് ഒരു കപ്പലായാലും കെട്ടിടമായാലും ഒരു വ്യക്തിയുടെ ശരീരമായാലും.
1. The son of Barbarossa was so cruel, and treated his slaves so badly, that, when those who were at the oars saw that the She-wolf galley was bearing down upon them and gaining upon them, they all at once dropped their oars and seized their captain who stood on the stage at the end of the gangway shouting to them to row lustily and passing him on from bench to bench, from the poop to the prow, they so bit him that before he had got much past the mast his soul had already got to hell so great, as I said, was the cruelty with which he treated them, and the hatred with which they hated him.
2. 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.
3. She was coming out of Marseilles harbor, and was standing out to sea rapidly, her sharp prow cleaving through the waves.
4. Standing on the prow was a tall man, of a dark complexion, who saw with dilating eyes that they were approaching a dark mass of land in the shape of a cone, which rose from the midst of the waves like the hat of a Catalan.
5. Her prow was cleaver sharp, with a ram at water-level, her profile sleek, from her twin, low cut masts to the two funnels whose emissions smeared the sky, and she was easily three times the length of the brig in which Watters stood.
6. Already inundated in spray, the brothers were busy steering their prow over the crest of each crossing swell and down into the following trough, much as the way Jipeba liked to lift up the boy and then lower him down before raising him up again.
7. The sea, loaded with phosphoric light, opened beneath the hulls of the barks that transported the baggage and munitions every dip of the prow plowed up this gulf of white flames from every oar dropped liquid diamonds.
8. In two well-closed coffers, placed beneath the benches of the prow and the poop, Aramis found bread, biscuit, dried fruits, a quarter of bacon, a good provision of water in leathern bottles the whole forming rations sufficient for people who did not mean to quit the coast, and would be able to revictual, if necessity commanded.
9. Dimly aware of a demotion from the prow, of being made to plug the leaks.
10. She had known these people all her life now, they sat hauling on the long oars as the ship rose and fell, dashing aside the waves from its sharp prow.