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
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
For the 1907 race, restrictions were relaxed to allow professionals on board, but amateurs still had to form the afterguard, as they have done ever since.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then he and Enterprise and her hard-sailing afterguard finished alone.
From Time Magazine Archive
"I told you so, Bill," muttered one of the afterguard to his neighbour—"I knowed as how we'd have a breeze when I throwed my old shoe overboard."
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 15 by Various
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