Stern

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. The rear part (after end) of a ship or other vessel.
3. A bird, the black tern, seabird.
4. The post of management or direction.
   figuratively
5. The hinder part of anything.
6. The tail of an animal; now used only of the tail of a dog.

Equivalents

Examples

“Holonyms: watercraft < vessel”

“Old Applegate, in the stern, just set⟳ and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help⟳. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab⟳ hold⟳ of the skiff's rail, close⟳ to the stern.”

“and sit⟳ chiefest stern of public weal”

“And all attonce her beaſtly bodie raizd / With doubled forces high aboue the ground: / Tho wrapping vp her wrethed ſterne arownd, / Lept fierce vpon his ſhield, [...]”

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