abaft

How To Use abaft In A Sentence

• Abaft the hatchway was a door on the starboard side which I opened, and found a narrow dark passage. The Frozen Pirate
• A glance up the hatchway showed the giant that the arms he had planned to seize were defended by ten firelocks, and that, behind the open doors of the partition which ran abaft the mizenmast, the remainder of the detachment stood to their arms. For the term of his natural life
• With this security he had established as his right a caboose abaft the funnel in the midships Bofors gunshield where the gun had been removed.
• The steamer's topsides were lowest just abaft the bridge and they had let down a ladder. THE MAIN CAGES
• Almost every man on the quarter or main-decks of the "Serapis" was killed or wounded by the united fire of the enemy; and the calamity was increased by the accidental ignition of a cartridge of powder near one of the lower deck-ports, and the flames spreading from cartridge to cartridge all the way aft, blew up the whole of the officers and people that were quartered abaft the mainmast. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria
• The swell was either just abaft or on the beam and at night you couldn't see it.
• Charles Davis came abaft the 'midship-house, and, while we talked, many faces peered over the for'ard edge of the house and many forms slouched into view on the deck on each side of the house. CHAPTER XLV
• And some of the day the xebec came and hit us abaft the beam. Something Else Again
• Dropping down abaft the bridge, the first thing to come into view was the funnel.
• A nao was a Portuguese term nef or nau in French for a full-rigged round ship, with large square-rigged sails on two or three masts, sometimes with a lateen-rigged mizzen and a smaller mast called a bonaventure abaft the mizzen. Champlain's Dream