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
He’s coming round though,” said a voice from the afterpart of the ship.
From The Boy who sailed with Blake by William Henry Giles Kingston
Without saying more he turned away, not going below at once, but standing on the main deck near the office in the afterpart.
From Laid up in Lavender by Stanley J. Weyman
Around the afterpart of the standing room is a seat, the ballast is floored over, and two little bunks and a stove generally help to furnish the cuddy.
From The Lobster Fishery of Maine Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission, Vol. 19, Pages 241-265, 1899 by John N. (John Nathan) Cobb
