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 sailboats are generally small square-sterned sloops, open in the afterpart, but with a cuddy forward.
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
The first impulse of everyone was to spring to the afterpart of our craft, as far as possible from its huge fangs.
From The Wanderers Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco by Perat
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
