Definitions
(of a ship or an airplane) behind
Word origin
From a- (“towards”) + stern (“rear part of a vessel”).
Used in a sentence
“After we had row'd, or rather driven about a League and a Half, as we reckon'd it, a raging Wave, Mountain-like, came rowling a-stern of us, and plainly bad us expect the Coup-de-Grace.”
“If one ship is following another, the first is astern of the second.”
“Every yachtsman knows that if the ballast of a ship be too afore or too astern.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Behind a ship”6 letters
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