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
With his large and eccentric ears flapping back in the wind and his afterpart hunched in, he ran round and round the little orchard like a dog gone wild.
From Gentle Julia by C. Allan Gilbert
“Hallo, sailor boy!” said Tom Long, superciliously; and then they stood looking at each other, quite unconsciously like a couple of Malay game cocks in bamboo cages, on the afterpart of the sampan.
From Middy and Ensign by G. D. Rowlandson
Yes, my dears, I am glad to say that the afterpart is not to be discontinued.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, December 27, 1890 by Various
