Just to make your life more difficult, the line attached to the bow, both on sailing vessels and canal boats in America is properly a bow line.

The knot is pronounced bo-line and the line attached near the midpoint of the leading edge of a square sail is pronounced bo-line.

When a sailing vessel is sailing into the wind, she is said to be on a bowline, pronounced bo-line. The engine that was once used all over the world was a Bolinder and the round thing on piers that lines were attached to to hold vessels to the pier was called a bollard.