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adverb
Astern  adv.  (Naut.)
1.
In or at the hinder part of a ship; toward the hinder part, or stern; backward; as, to go astern.
2.
Behind a ship; in the rear. "A gale of wind right astern." "Left this strait astern."
To bake astern, to go stern foremost.
To be astern of the reckoning, to be behind the position given by the reckoning.
To drop astern, to fall or be left behind.
To go astern, to go backward, as from the action of currents or winds.





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... had applied such rude restoratives as he commanded, and having made her as comfortable as possible upon a couch in the spacious cabin astern, he had suggested that she should be allowed the rest of which she appeared so sorely to stand in need. He had ushered out the commander and the Queen's Lieutenant, and himself had gone below to a ...
— The Sea-Hawk • Raphael Sabatini
... People apt to be heavy in the stern-works. They are quite languid about Pragmatic Sanction, these Dutch; they answer his Britannic Majesty's enthusiasm with an obese torpidity; and hope always they will drift through, in some way; buoyant in their own fat, well ballasted astern; and not need such swimming for life. "What a laggard notion," thinks his Majesty; "notion in ten pair of breeches, so to speak!" This stirring up of the Dutch, which lasts year on year, and almost beats Lord Stair, Lord Carteret, and our chief ...
— History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XIII. (of XXI.) • Thomas Carlyle
... was silent. The ship moved gently onward. The monotonous cry of the leadsman in the chains was the only sound audible. The soundings were indicating shoaler water, although the murmuring of the surf had been left far astern. The almost imperceptible darkening of the mist on either beam seemed to show that the Excelsior was entering some land-locked passage. The movement of the vessel slackened, the tide was beginning to ebb. Suddenly a wave ...
— The Crusade of the Excelsior • Bret Harte
... in the blackness astern; the cries were hushed by the clamor of the gale, and the steamship Titan swung back to her course. The first officer had not turned the lever of ...
— The Wreck of the Titan - or, Futility • Morgan Robertson
... high-sounding name. But the Revolution came, and the digging never extended beyond that first dozen miles; and thus it is that the Canal of the Two Oceans, as such, is a delusion, and that the golden future which once lay ahead of Givors now lies a long way astern. Yet the town has an easy and contented look: as though it had saved enough from the wreck of its magnificent destiny to leave it ...
— The Christmas Kalends of Provence - And Some Other Provencal Festivals • Thomas A. Janvier


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