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

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 Dandridge, Danske

We managed, however, to fit a small cabin for Marian in the afterpart with a spare sail, into which she could retire to rest.

From The Wanderers Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco by Perat

“A man overboard!” exclaimed some one from the afterpart of the deck.

From The Three Midshipmen by Prout, Victor