The sunshine made her canvas look as white as snow against the skirts of the body of vapour that had trailed a little to leeward of her, and her black hull flashed as though she discharged a broadside every time she rose wet to the northern glory out of the hollow of the swell with a curl of silver at her Cutwater.
"The Frozen Pirate"
W. Clark Russell
One of these pieces would form the stem or Cutwater, while the other would become the stern of the craft.
"Popular Adventure Tales"
Mayne Reid
The sea woke up under the push of the sharp Cutwater, and whispered softly to the gliding craft in that tender and rippling murmur in which it speaks sometimes to those it nurses and loves.
"An Outcast of the Islands"
Joseph Conrad