sternward
[ sturn-werd ]
adverb
toward the stern; astern.
Origin of sternward
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How to use sternward in a sentence
Half of the vessel sternward was devoid of air, but here in the bow we could last a little longer.
Wandl the Invader | Raymond King CummingsIn the end, when the afternoon was waxing late, the sternward vessel stood up so that every detail of her loomed plain.
Poor Man's Rock | Bertrand W. SinclairShe was about four thousand tons, and her engines were sternward and not amidship.
The Million Dollar Mystery | Harold MacGrathGregory turned about to see the black waters to the sternward were rippled with sparkling threads of silver-white.
El Diablo | Brayton NortonHis eye was at once turned towards the water; and, like all men accustomed to the sea, was intuitively directed sternward.
The Ocean Waifs | Mayne Reid
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