sternward

[sturn-werd]

adverb

toward the stern; astern.

Origin of sternward

First recorded in 1825–35; stern² + -ward

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Examples from the Web for sternward

Historical Examples of sternward

Sternward on the deck, by the lounge oval, I could see Miko standing.
Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930
Various
She was about four thousand tons, and her engines were sternward and not amidship.
The Million Dollar Mystery
Harold MacGrath
Gregory turned about to see the black waters to the sternward were rippled with sparkling threads of silver-white.
El Diablo
Brayton 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 Rock
Bertrand W. Sinclair