afterpart
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Its afterpart stands clear and showing its skin, like a dissected whale, but its forward part is enclosed in a big tank of water.
From Time Magazine Archive
The entire afterpart of the ship was on fire, and sailors were launching the lifeboat that was on our deck.
From "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor
We will see, however, what is to be found in the afterpart of the ship.”
From The Three Admirals by J.R. Wells
No distinction of rank was made by the jailors on the Jersey, but the prisoners themselves agreed to allow the officers to occupy the extreme afterpart of the ship, between decks, called the gun-room.
From American Prisoners of the Revolution by Danske Dandridge
The head was attached to the afterpart of the maintop.
From King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855 by E. Keble (Edward Keble) Chatterton
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