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Abaft (preposition): at or toward the stern of a ship, or further back from a location, e.g. "the mizzenmast is abaft the mainmast". [1]Aboard: onto or within a ship, or in a group.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 18 January 2025. Back or aft-most part of a ship or boat For other uses, see Stern (disambiguation). Detailed schematic of an elliptical or "fantail" stern The flat transom stern of the cargo ship Sichem Princess Marie-Chantal The stern is the back or aft -most part of a ship or boat, technically defined ...
On wooden vessels, the skeg may be protected from worm damage by the addition of a bug shoe, or a "a length of hardened material, such as ironbark, placed on the sternward keel extension (skeg) to protect from shipworm damage." [3] In more modern installations, with more than one screw, a fitting supports each propeller shaft just ahead of its ...
When "quay" and "wharf" are used as synonyms, the term "quay" is more common in everyday speech in the United Kingdom, many Commonwealth countries, and Ireland, while "wharf" is more commonly used in the United States. 2. To land or tie up at a quay. quayside 1. An area alongside a quay. 2. Being alongside a quay, e.g.
"We set up mast and sail on that swart ship / Bore sheep aboard her, and our bodies also / Heavy with weeping, so winds from sternward / Bore us out onward with bellying canvas ..." (Canto I by Ezra Pound) "Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising / I came singing in the sun, sword unsheathing ..." (Eomer's Wrath by J.R.R. Tolkien)