stern chaser

Historical Examples of stern-chaser

• Cast loose the stern-chaser and fire her at yon varlet if he makes a move.

  The Lady and the Pirate

  Emerson Hough

• The vessel had swung round a little, so that her stern-chaser, a culverin twelve feet long, pointed full at the fort.

  With Drake on the Spanish Main

  Herbert Strang

• They feared he had made up his mind to run, and this gun was to be used as a stern-chaser.

  The Second War with England, Vol. 1 of 2

  J. T. Headley.

• The stern-chaser belched forth, and the shot tore across the water, but missed the Caroline.

  The Cruise of the "Lively Bee"

  John De Morgan