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astern

English

  1. 🔊 (of a ship or an airplane) behind
    “we dropped her astern on the end of a seven-inch manilla, and she laid comfortably on the ebb tide”
  2. 🔊 stern foremost or backward
    “the steamer went astern at half speed”
  3. 🔊 at or near or toward the stern of a ship or tail of an airplane
    “stow the luggage aft”

Similar words

aft abaft a rebours a reculons abaft aft after against the grain anticlockwise arear ass-backwards away back backward backwards baft counterclockwise fore and aft fro hindward hindwards in reverse rear rearward