pink stern
noun
a sharp stern having a narrow, overhanging, raking transom.
pink-sterned
-
a word derived from
pink stern.
Example Sentences
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A small Mediterranean vessel, pink-sterned, with a lateen main-sail and mizen, and a large jib.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
