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
He advanced cautiously, showing his whole vast proportions, his huge shaggy mane, and the afterpart of his body looking thin and small, but even that was of the size of a full-grown donkey.
From Adventures in Africa By an African Trader by William Henry Giles Kingston
The head was attached to the afterpart of the maintop.
From King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855 by E. Keble (Edward Keble) Chatterton
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
