pink stern

noun

Nautical.

1. a sharp stern having a narrow, overhanging, raking transom.

Other Word Forms

• pink-sterned adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of pink stern¹

First recorded in 1885–60

Example Sentences

She was a new, pink stern vessel, & carried off one of our hands, who, no doubt, will acquaint you of the whole affair.

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From the Jersey prison ship eighty of us were taken to the pink stern sloop-of-war Hunter, Captain Thomas Henderson, Commander.

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