sternward

[ sturn-werd ]

adverb

1. toward the stern; astern.

Word History and Origins

Origin of sternward¹

First recorded in 1825–35; stern ² + -ward

Example Sentences

Half of the vessel sternward was devoid of air, but here in the bow we could last a little longer.

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In the end, when the afternoon was waxing late, the sternward vessel stood up so that every detail of her loomed plain.

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She was about four thousand tons, and her engines were sternward and not amidship.

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Gregory turned about to see the black waters to the sternward were rippled with sparkling threads of silver-white.

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His eye was at once turned towards the water; and, like all men accustomed to the sea, was intuitively directed sternward.

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