astern
IPA: ˈæstɝn
adjective
- Behind a vessel; having a bearing of 180 degrees from ahead.
adverb
- Behind (a vessel); in the rear.
- In the direction of the stern; backward (motion); to the rear.
- (obsolete or rare) At or toward the rear of a vessel.
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Examples of "astern" in Sentences
- The American ships could only manage astern.
- A third screamed out of the clouds from astern.
- As the balance changes the vessel will move astern.
- Three bombs splashed 100 to 300 yards astern of the ship.
- The word "astern" was given as soon as the harpoon was thrown.
- As the cruiser closed in from astern, she began to send signals.
- From astern, Gordon attacked one of the medium Japanese bombers.
- The crew reported two explosions astern, following which the ship sank.
- Form in a line of battle ahead and astern of Victory as most convenient.
- 'Westfalen' was the last ship in the division, astern of her three sisters.
- She was hit fairly quickly and began to fall astern of the other two ships.
- 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.