Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: 1  Slip(noun) to move along the surface of a thing without bounding, rolling, or stepping; to slide; to glide. 2  Slip(noun) to slide; to lose one's footing or one's hold; not to tread firmly; as, it is necessary to walk carefully lest the foot should slip.
The riser (the centre section of the bow) is generally separate and is constructed from wood, carbon, aluminium alloy or magnesium alloy. The term 'riser' is used because, in a one-piece bow, the centre section rises from the limbs in a taper to spread the stress.
Actually, it was the bowsprit. The figurehead was often carved on it. Nope, the bowsprit is the spar or mast that points forward from the bow of the ship. The extension of the bowsprit is the jibboom and the sail carried below the bowsprit is the spritsail. Figurehead is the correct name for the figurehead and there's no way it would be carved on the bowsprit.