Sternpost is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for STERNPOST in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the main member at the stern of a ship extending from keel to deck
• the central upright support at the stern of a boat, traditionally bearing the rudder.
• main upright timber or structure at the stern of a vessel
• A straight piece of timber, or an iron bar or beam, erected on the extremity of the keel to support the rudder, and receive the ends of the planks or plates of the vessel.
• (nautical) the principal upright timber at the stern of a vessel
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the principal member at the stern of a ship extending from keel to deck

Words related to STERNPOST

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Words that contain STERNPOST

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How to use STERNPOST in a sentence

• A beam across the stern-post to strengthen the after part of the ship.
• The inns, too, have a nautical, seaport air, running along the beach, as they should do, and some of the older ones having a bulging stern-post look about their lower windows.
• The stem had a notched knob provided for this very purpose, and there was a stern-post against which a steersman might press a paddle and thus swerve the canoe in any direction.
• About the 15th of May the keel of the new vessel lay along the dockyard, and soon the stem and stern-post, mortised at each of its extremities, rose almost perpendicularly.
• But for all that I heard what was like a half laugh come from Bertric, and he went quickly aft to the sternpost and rested his hand on it for a moment, still watching the ship.
• And as he went, one of that ghostly crew went also, and stood as he stood, with outstretched arm set on the dim sternpost.

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