abaft

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The amidships cockpit has teak bench seats on each side, and the winches are bunched just forward and abaft the twin carbon fiber wheels.

From Time Magazine Archive

The tail unit had been severed just abaft the toilet and was found practically intact about a mile from the wreck.

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Just abaft the bridge were two large cowled ventilators leading down into the fireroom.

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In his chart room abaft the flag bridge, handsome, white-haired Rear Admiral George R. Henderson, commander of Task Force 77, listened to his pilots' reports on the results of their strike.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Susan Marie was a thirty-foot stern-picker—a standard, well-tended San Piedro gill-netter—with her cabin just abaft of midship.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson