Aft

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·adv & ·adj Near or towards the stern of a vessel; astern; abaft.

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  • aft

    a Saxon word contradistinctive of fore, and an abbreviation of abaft the hinder part of the ship, or...

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  • aft-castle

    An elevation on the after-part of our ships of war, opposed to forecastle, for the purpose of fighti...

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  • chock-aft

    , chock-full, chock-home, chock-up, &c. Denote as far aft, full, home, up, &c., as possible, or th...

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  • flat-aft

    The sheets of fore-and-aft sails may be hauled flat-aft, as the jib-sheet to pay her head off, the d...

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  • veers aft

    See hauls aft ...

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  • hauls aft

    , or veers aft. Said of the wind when it draws astern. ...

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  • round-aft

    The outward curve or segment of a circle, that the stern partakes of from the wing transom upwards. ...

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  • taken aft

    Complained of on the quarter-deck. ...

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  • bearing backstays aft

    To throw the breast backstays out of the cross-tree horns or out-riggers and bear them aft. If not d...

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  • both sheets aft

    The situation of a square-rigged ship that sails before the wind, or with the wind right astern. It ...

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  • fore-and-aft

    From head to stern throughout the ship's whole length, or from end to end; it also implies in a line...

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  • fore-and-aft sails

    Jibs, staysails, and gaff-sails; in fact, all sails which are not set to yards. They extend from the...

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  • haul aft a sheet

    To pull it in more towards the stern, so as to trim the sail nearer to the wind. ...

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  • brace up and haul aft!

    The order usually given after being hove-to, with fore or main top-sail square or aback, and jib-she...

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  • gather aft a sheet, to

    to pull it in, by hauling in slack. ...

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