afterpart
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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
We have rallied on the afterpart of the deck, and hold it still; but there is no time to be lost.”
From Ronald Morton, or the Fire Ships A Story of the Last Naval War by T. Hoggans
It seemed to embrace the whole afterpart of the ship, and everything one of the forked tongues of fire was projected against burst into flame itself.
From Sea-Hounds by Lewis R. Freeman
The afterpart of the pamphlet is devoted to a curious examination of the qualities of the letters of the Greek and Roman alphabets.
From James Otis, the pre-revolutionist by John Clark Ridpath
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