Aft
[ɑːft] or [æft]
Definition
(adj.) (nautical, aeronautical) situated at or toward the stern or tail .
(adv.) at or near or toward the stern of a ship or tail of an airplane; 'stow the luggage aft'; 'ships with square sails sail fairly efficiently with the wind abaft'; 'the captain looked astern to see what the fuss was about'.
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Definition
(adv. & a.) Near or towards the stern of a vessel; astern; abaft.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
ad. (Naut.) Abaft, astern, behind, back, rearward, in the rear.
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Definition
adj. or adv. behind: near or towards the stern of a vessel.
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Examples
- Adrian sat at the helm; I attended to the rigging, the breeze right aft filled our swelling canvas, and we ran before it over the untroubled deep. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The captain was on the point of making an angry reply, but, thinking better of it, turned on his heel and black and scowling, strode aft. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The man next to me, upon the aft side, was one whom I had particularly noticed when we were led down the quay. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Know'd it yes'day aft'noon at tea-time, said Coavinses. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It used to annoy the elephant at first, and he would reach up and take her down, but she would go aft and climb up again. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- We reefed the fore-sail and set him, and hauled aft the fore-sheet; the helm was hard a-weather. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Her deck lights raked me fore and aft, they did. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The ship is shown lying on her side with her machinery and armament shot into masses of twisted iron and steel, great fires raging forward, amidship and aft. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Justinian will rake you fore and aft, observed Crispin dryly, especially if you make eyes at his womankind. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- It is not from deck, said the man at the helm, something has been thrown from the aft cabin. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- And forthwith he took the conductor under hand, and I felt, through all the storm of French which followed, that he raked him fore and aft. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The best laid plans o' mice and men gang aft agley. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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