astern, adv.
(of a ship or an airplane) behind
<adv.all>
astern
sample sentences
"we dropped her astern on the end of a seven-inch manilla, and she laid comfortably on the ebb tide"
semantic pointers
domain of synset (topic)
at or near or toward the stern of a ship or tail of an airplane
<adv.all> freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1
abaft aft astern
sample sentences
"stow the luggage aft""ships with square sails sail fairly efficiently with the wind abaft"
"the captain looked astern to see what the fuss was about"
lexical pointers
antonym
stern foremost or backward
<adv.all>
astern