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Definition of Sternposts
1. sternpost [n] - See also: sternpost
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sternposts
Literary usage of Sternposts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Safety of Navigation on Water: Hearing[s] Before a Subcommittee of the by United States Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce (1912)
"... shank of rivets shall be not less than number ten BWG sternposts shall be not
less ... sternposts ..."
2. A practical treatise on modern screw-propulsion by Nicholas Procter Burgh (1869)
"... greater freedom of the propellers from disturbing currents and broken water
arising from the motion of the ship, the sternposts, dead wood, and counter. ..."
3. A Manual of Naval Architecture: For the Use of Officers of the Royal Navy by William Henry White (1877)
"Wood stems and sternposts are fitted in many of the composite vessels; but in
the swift cruisers and ironclads brass stems and ..."
4. Journal by Iron and Steel Institute (1903)
"Especially noteworthy are the enormous castings of mild steel, among them the
stems and sternposts for warships and the mercantile marine. ..."
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