sternward / ˈstɜrn wərd /

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sternward 的定义

adv. 副词 adverb
  1. toward the stern; astern.

更多sternward例句

  1. Half of the vessel sternward was devoid of air, but here in the bow we could last a little longer.
  2. In the end, when the afternoon was waxing late, the sternward vessel stood up so that every detail of her loomed plain.
  3. She was about four thousand tons, and her engines were sternward and not amidship.
  4. Gregory turned about to see the black waters to the sternward were rippled with sparkling threads of silver-white.
  5. His eye was at once turned towards the water; and, like all men accustomed to the sea, was intuitively directed sternward.