Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The backward movement of a vessel.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The movement of a ship backward, or with her stern foremost.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Naut.) The movement of a ship backward, or with her stern foremost.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun nautical a
backwards motion of avessel
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Examples
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Elsinore was up in the eye of the wind, and making sternway, I found that by putting the wheel sharply over, one way or the other, I could swing her bow off.
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Then the ship would become unmanageable and drift away, with the possibility of getting excessive sternway on her and so damaging rudder or propeller, the
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The mass of iron fell half in – board upon the now stayed boat, and gave her sternway, with a splintered plank.
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With the anchor broken out Hotspur gathered momentary sternway.
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But before sternway could be got on the boat, the infuriated monster made a sudden turn, dashed upon and stove it into fragments.
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In order to enable the vessel to turn speedily, she is fitted with the sternway rudder of
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Squaring her head-yards, the brig dropped her mainsail, braced her cross jack-yard sharp aback, put her helm a-weather and got sternway, while her after sails and helm kept her to the wind.
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Unconcernedly he made his way along the sternway and into the now deserted quarters of the fighters.
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Now the Baliol shell had made sternway sufficient for the man in the skiff to seize the rudder.
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Elsinore was up in the eye of the wind, and making sternway, I found that by putting the wheel sharply over, one way or the other, I could swing her bow off.
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