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

Even as I looked several long red flashes spurted forward and abaft the funnel, and as I raced back to the cabin the passageway behind me heaved and filled with smoke.

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Unshakable, unanimous belief of all hands was that a torpedo struck her just abaft amidships on the port side.

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In Valchem crew's quarters, just five or six feet abaft the deep cut, an oiler awoke into a nightmare.

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With a fair wind abaft the beam, the ship could have logged a hundred and fifty miles in a day’s sailing.

From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham