afterpart
Example Sentences
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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
The cabin was nothing more than a “toldo”—an arched roof, thatched with leaves of the bossu palm, and covering all the afterpart of the vessel, except a small space for the steersman.
From The Guerilla Chief And other Tales by Reid, Mayne
The larger portion of their gallant ship had disappeared, but the afterpart still remained entire.
From The History of Little Peter, the Ship Boy by Kingston, William Henry Giles
It seemed to embrace the whole afterpart of the ship, and everything one of the forked tongues of fire was projected against burst into flame itself.
From Sea-Hounds by Freeman, Lewis R.
