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Definition of Sterned
1. a. Having a stern of a particular shape; -- used in composition; as, square- sterned.
Definition of Sterned
1. Adjective. Having a stern of a particular shape or kind. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sterned
1. stern [v] - See also: stern
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sterned
Literary usage of Sterned
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Karen People of Burma: A Study in Anthropology and Ethnology by Harry Ignatius Marshall (1922)
"... HILLS PLAINS WOMEN BATHING IN THE IRRAWADDY, IN THE LEE OF THE HIGH-sterned
BURMESE BOAT ... sterned ..."
2. A Manual of Yacht and Boat Sailing by Dixon Kemp, Brooke Heckstall-Smith (1900)
"The boats are either round or square sterned. The former is coming more into use
for pilots and ... The square-sterned boats are faster on a wind ; and the ..."
3. The Law and the Poor by Edward Abbott Parry (1914)
"Dickens had the same impatience of the heavy sterned brigade and invented his
immortal Circumlocution Office, and doubtless genius is entitled to deride ..."
4. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1840)
"Not STA. some of these thorough-bred finc-sterned dog* are tat r. staunch as ...
fine-sterned modern pointer is staunch, all »ho ha^e *rc-. high-bred and ..."
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