Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A stern gallery such as was built on old line-of-battle ships.

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Examples

  • The after-cabin, where the Captain perused his correspondence, was an airy, chintz-upholstered apartment leading aft through two heavy steel doors on to the stern-walk.

    A Tall Ship On Other Naval Occasions 1886-1967 Bartimeus 1926

  • Captain Panke's stern-walk is now above our defenceless 'eads.

    Traffics and Discoveries Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • There, in the stern-walk, stood the lady, already mentioned in this chapter, a keen spectator of the awful scene.

    The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet James Fenimore Cooper 1820

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