sternward
[sturn-werd]
- toward the stern; astern.
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Origin of sternward
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Sternward on the deck, by the lounge oval, I could see Miko standing.
She was about four thousand tons, and her engines were sternward and not amidship.
The Million Dollar MysteryHarold MacGrath
Gregory turned about to see the black waters to the sternward were rippled with sparkling threads of silver-white.
El DiabloBrayton Norton
In the end, when the afternoon was waxing late, the sternward vessel stood up so that every detail of her loomed plain.
Poor Man's RockBertrand W. Sinclair