Definition of Sternways

1. sternway [n] - See also: sternway

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sternways

sternum
sternums
sternutate
sternutated
sternutates
sternutating
sternutation
sternutations
sternutative
sternutator
sternutators
sternutatory
sternward
sternwards
sternway
sternways (current term)
sternwheel
sternwheeler
sternwheelers
sternwheels
steroid alcohol
steroid hormone
steroidal
steroidally
steroidlike
steroidogeneses
steroidogenesis
steroidogenetic
steroidogenic

Literary usage of Sternways

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke (1830)
"The Genoa was for the greater part of the action nearly, though not quite, broadside towards her opponent, and he did not recollect her swinging sternways. ..."

2. Publications of the Navy Records Society by Navy Records Society (Great Britain) (1894)
"Some of the fleet were carried sternways as far as I could see them. We edged over on the Barbary shore and by noon were got but to the first ledge of rocks ..."

3. Transactions of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects by Royal Institution of Naval Architects (1867)
"Mr. FROUDE : No doubt, because the screw was not pushing sternways. It is not more difficult to push sideways the water which is keeping pace with the ship, ..."

4. South Sea Bubbles by George Herbert Pembroke, George Henry Kingsley (1874)
"... sternways, sideways, with apparently equal ease and partiality. Some variegated like harle- •quins; many, not with their hues more or less blending into ..."

5. Sailors' Language: A Collection of Sea-terms and Their Definitions by William Clark Russell (1883)
"A ship is said to be aback when the wind presses her sails backwards against the masts, so as to force her sternways or drive her bodily to leeward. Abaft. ..."

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