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English Dictionary: astern	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for astern
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
astern adv stern foremost or backward; "the steamer went astern at half speed" at or near or toward the stern of a ship or tail of an airplane; "stow the luggage aft"; "ships with square sails sail fairly efficiently with the wind abaft"; "the captain looked astern to see what the fuss was about" Synonym(s): aft, abaft, astern Antonym(s): fore, forward (of a ship or an airplane) behind; "we dropped her astern on the end of a seven-inch manilla, and she laid comfortably on the ebb tide"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Astern \Astern"\, adv. [Pref. a- + stern.] (Naut.) 1. In or at the hinder part of a ship; toward the hinder part, or stern; backward; as, to go astern. 2. Behind a ship; in the rear. [bd]A gale of wind right astern.[b8] --De Foe. [bd]Left this strait astern.[b8] --Drake. {To bake astern}, to go stern foremost. {To be astern* of the reckoning}, to be behind the position given by the reckoning. {To drop astern}, to fall or be left behind. {To go astern}, to go backward, as from the action of currents or winds.