afterguard
Americannoun
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the owner of a yacht or his guests.
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the officers quartered in the stern of a vessel.
noun
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a sailor or group of sailors stationed on the poop to attend to the aft sails
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the members of the crew responsible for strategic decisions about the sailing and navigation of a boat
Etymology
Origin of afterguard
Example Sentences
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There's the afterguard which includes the helmsman who steers, a strategist and the tactician.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2013
As a matter of fact, some added, there were altogether too many navymen in the challenger's afterguard.
From Time Magazine Archive
Conner, though calling himself skipper, seems content to turn over the driving duties to Ken Read, whose afterguard includes longtime Conner crew members Peter Isler, Tom Whidden and, more recently, Terry Hutchinson.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the Ranger's afterguard, i.e., board of strategy, was Long Island Sailor Arthur Knapp Jr., one of Corny's ablest continuing rivals for local and national sailing honors.
From Time Magazine Archive
The social gap between this afterguard and Rose and her colleagues in the chorus, was not so very wide, but it was abysmally deep.
From The Real Adventure by Crosby, Raymond Moreau
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