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

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

The head was attached to the afterpart of the maintop.

From King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855 by Chatterton, E. Keble (Edward Keble)