Astern is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ASTERN in dictionary:

VERB:
• In or at the hinder part of a ship; toward the hinder part, or stern; backward; as, to go astern.
• Behind a ship; in the rear.
ADVERB:
• behind or towards the rear of a ship or aircraft
• at or towards the stern of a ship
• stern foremost or backward
• at or near or toward the stern of a ship or tail of an airplane
• (of a ship or an airplane) behind
ADJECTIVE:
• towards the stern
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• at or toward the rear of a ship

Words that contain ASTERN

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How to use ASTERN in a sentence

• Before we knew it, we were bowling along under a stiff breeze, and the island was dropping astern.
• When he came up they had passed the Chicken Rock and a long bright beam touched the sea astern.
• Then they steamed for fourteen-hundred miles before the Northeast Trades, with a misty blue sky overhead and long, white-topped seas rolling up astern.
• Presently, thinking he saw a light astern, he raised himself, peering astern.
• Lucky it is that it comes about midway in the homeward-bound passage, so that the sailors have time to prepare for it, and time to recover from it after it is astern.
• There had been a great bank of cloud rising astern, which had looked as if it were going to breeze up still more.
• Astern of it, I saw now that the sun had sunk to a mere line of light.
• Our companion ships are out of sight astern, except the Susquehanna, which is behind us only about a mile.
• Up shaded streets they progressed, leaving a wake of purest joy astern.
• The engine room is not far from the mid length of the boat, and one boiler is placed ahead and the other astern of it.
• After we had rowed, or rather driven, about a league and a half, as we reckoned it, a raging wave, mountain-like, came rolling astern of us, and plainly bade us expect our end.
• Some of our ships being three or four miles astern, Mr.
• He did not try to pass it, but kept a little astern, trying not to attract attention and hoping that it would turn aside into another canal.
• The other shots had all struck the ship in the second-class quarters astern.
• Finn would spread out his fore legs widely, and lower his great frame till his muzzle almost reached the ground, while his tail waved high astern.
• After another spell of energetic rowing, I looked astern, expecting to see that tree at least a mile behind.
• The Discovery being about a mile astern, and to leeward, found less water than we did, and tacking on that account, I was obliged to tack also, to prevent separation.
• He seated himself on the promenade deck, and watched with wonder the boiling, surging waters astern of the steamer.
• Bligh was compelled to follow, and she was then dropped astern.
• Newton rose and pointed to the boat, which had now drifted about a quarter of a mile astern.
• In the evening they left us, after spending the greater part of the day on board, with their canoe towing astern.
• A couple of hands were put in her, and she was veered astern.
• Now Onund was the wisest of men, and bade lay five ships up into the sound, so that he and his might have back way when they would, for there was plenty of sea-room astern.
• The Iowa was three and two-tenths miles directly astern of the Vizcaya.
• As he uttered the last word he cut the rope that held it, and let it drop astern.
• But I kept good watch all the night and in the morning saw her astern of us, standing as we did.
• Little by little we gained to windward, until he was three miles astern of us and losing still more rapidly, as he went to leeward.
• Presently a gleam lit on a small steady patch of white far astern of us, which did not toss with the nearer waves, and did not shift along the skyline.
• As the ship, at first, had fresh way through the water, several of them dropped astern after they had received our goods, and before they had time to deliver theirs in return.

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