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Abaft

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Adverb

1. abaft, aft, astern

at or near or toward the stern of a ship or tail of an airplane

Example Sentences:
'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'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Abaft

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adverb, adjective (postpositive)
1. 
closer to the stern than to another place on a vessel
with the wind abaft
preposition
2. 
behind; aft of
abaft the mast

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Abaft

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adverb
1. 
at or toward the stern or rear of a ship; aft
preposition
2.  Nautical
to the rear of; behind
located just abaft the bridge

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Abaft

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prep.
Toward the stern from.
adv.
Toward the stern.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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