astern

IPA: ˈæstɝn

Examples of "astern" in Sentences

The word "astern" was given as soon as the harpoon was thrown.
The rudder is gone, and we have sprung a leak astern which is more than we can stop.
"Glad to hear it," returned the other, who could read our name astern as she lay athwart us.
Besides these she possessed two "astern" turbines and two cruising turbines -- all four on the wing shafts.
I demanded: but the next moment I heard his call astern and knew that, monkey-like, he had got her over and was aboard her somehow.
'midship-house, and Charles Davis lies about him nursing a marlin-spike, and Christian Jespersen, miles astern, is deep sunk in the sea with a sack of coal at his feet.
'midship-house, and Charles Davis lies about him nursing a marlin - spike, and Christian Jespersen, miles astern, is deep sunk in the sea with a sack of coal at his feet.
By all rules of tactical common-sense it would seem that the other ships should have taken their distance from their next astern, that is, should have closed toward the centre.
Only a very few of these, of course, lay anywhere near the city's direct line - of flight-indeed, many of them were scattered "astern" (that is, under the keel of the city), in the imaginary - hemisphere on the other side of his home Sun.