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adverb
Astern  adv.  (Naut.)
1.
In or at the hinder part of a ship; toward the hinder part, or stern; backward; as, to go astern.
2.
Behind a ship; in the rear. "A gale of wind right astern." "Left this strait astern."
To bake astern, to go stern foremost.
To be astern of the reckoning, to be behind the position given by the reckoning.
To drop astern, to fall or be left behind.
To go astern, to go backward, as from the action of currents or winds.





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"Astern" Quotes from Famous Books



... gleams along the base of the cliff or atop it, showed that the sparsely settled Palisades were drawing abeam. The ceaseless, swarming activities of the metropolis were being left behind. Silence was closing in, broken only by vagrant steamer-whistles from astern. ...
— The Flying Legion • George Allan England
... point is the terrified disciples. The evening was coming on, and, as often on a lake set among hills, the wind rose as the sun sank behind the high land on the western shore astern. The fishermen disciples were used to such squalls, and, at first, would probably let their sail down, and pull so as to keep the boat's head to the wind. But things grew worse, and when the crazy, undecked craft began to fill and get water-logged, they grew alarmed. The squall was ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - St. Mark • Alexander Maclaren
... afraid, are you, dearest?" he whispered, his strong arm stealing about her. "We are on the bounding main, ticketed for a port thousands of miles away. London is back there," pointing astern. ...
— Nedra • George Barr McCutcheon
... bridge, the band of the Second Infantry played tune after tune, until on our quarter the glorious sun sunk in the red west, and, one by one, the lights blazed out on troop-ship and war-ship for miles ahead and astern, as they steamed onward through the brilliant ...
— Rough Riders • Theodore Roosevelt
... was not war under the forms of peace. The difference was the difference between modern and ancient war, consisting in the use of scientific weapons, of organisation and information. The country, he concluded, had dropped astern in the race for want of special education which was obtained elsewhere by the artisan. The only possible chance for keeping the industry of England at the head of the world was ...
— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 3 • Leonard Huxley


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