Definitionadv. at or near or toward the stern of a ship or tail of an airplane
Last update: October 27, 2015
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Thus the part of B caused by the permanent magnetism of hard iron must be corrected by permanent magnets horizontally placed in a fore and aft direction; the other part caused by vertical soft iron by means of bars of vertical soft iron, called Flinders bars, before or abaft the compass. [Please select]
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The second class passengers occupy the main cabin and the deck abaft the wheels. [Please select]
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I understand that you sailed from New York rather short-handed abaft the mainmast. [Please select]
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The wind was fair abaft, and they made good way. [adverb]
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Abaft the wheels there were a saloon and two staterooms. [Please select]
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The commander went to his cabin, and Scott walked aft to the compass abaft the mainmast. [Please select]
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Abaft of that is the after cabin that we use as a dining room. [Please select]
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The skipper followed, with clumsy expertness bringing the dory's painter with him and hitching it to a ring-bolt abaft the rudder-head. [Please select]
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At the end of another five minutes, Christy saw Mulgrum come from abaft the mainmast, and descend the ladder to the galley. [Please select]
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