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Definition of Aftmost
1. a. Nearest the stern.
Definition of Aftmost
1. Adjective. Furthest aft, most sternward, as far back as possible. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Aftmost
1. nearest the stern [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aftmost
Literary usage of Aftmost
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard American Encyclopedia of Arts, Sciences, History, Biography by John Clark Ridpath (1898)
"The aftmost oar of a boat; also, the man that uses it. ... The man who rows the
aftmost oar in a boat, and whose stroke it to be followed by the rest. ..."
2. The Midshipman's Or British Mariner's Vocabulary: Being a Universal ...by J. J. Moore by J. J. Moore (1805)
"POOP, the highest and aftmost deck of a ship. See DECK. ... POOP Royal, a short
deck, or platform, placed over the aftmost part ol the poop in the largest ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1872)
"The gallants were sobered at once by fright, and I bundled them into the stern -
sheets, sat on the aftmost thwart myself, and for the lives of us all ..."
4. The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, Richard Griffin Braybrooke (1892)
"2 " A sort of chamber or apartment in a large ship of war, just before the great
cabin. The floor of it is formed by the aftmost part of the quarter deck, ..."
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