abaft

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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 Literature

He made his way just abaft of the cabin, then stood squinting up at the Susan Marie’s guys and stays and at the peaks of her stabilizer bars.

From Literature

In the midst of the mêlée a hostile light cruiser, tearing at 27 knots, rammed the Velocity, cutting her completely in twain just abaft the after engine-room bulkhead.

From Project Gutenberg

Before and abaft the machinery space there was a water-tight division at the center line only, except in the foremost and aftermost tanks.

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They have three funnels; one almost amidships, another aft; whereas the third, which is considerably more slender than the others, is situated abaft the mainmast, immediately in rear of the bridge.

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