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
“Hallo, sailor boy!” said Tom Long, superciliously; and then they stood looking at each other, quite unconsciously like a couple of Malay game cocks in bamboo cages, on the afterpart of the sampan.
From Middy and Ensign by G. D. Rowlandson
As he was speaking, a thick smoke rose from the afterpart of their antagonist, followed quickly by bright flames, which darted upwards through the hatchway.
From The Three Commanders by Thomas Cantrell Dugdale
Our craft was completely decked over, and a cabin raised in the afterpart for Marian and my father.
From The Wanderers Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco by Perat
