Lexicographical Neighbors of Sternways
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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