Crossword clues for abaft
abaft
- Nautical term
- To the rear
- Toward the rear
- Back in the navy
- Back at sea
- Back, at sea
- Behind, at sea
- Toward the back of the boat
- Towards the stern
- Toward the ship's rear
- Towards the stern of a ship
- Towards the back of the boat
- To the back of
- At the rear, to a sailor
- Sailor's back?
- Rearward, on the briny
- Not forward, to a salt
- Not forward, to a sailor
- Near the back, nautically
- Headed toward the stern
- Behind, shipwise
- (Nautically) behind
- Toward the stern
- To the rear, nautically
- Sternward
- Toward the rudder
- Sailor's behind
- To the rear, to a rear admiral
- Rearward, at sea
- Fore's opposite
- To the rear of
- Rearward, to a rear admiral
- Opposite of afore
- Toward a boat's wake
- Behind at sea
- At the stern
- In the rear, at sea
- Astern
- Behind, on the briny
- Toward the back of the ship
- Behind, nautically
- To the rear, at sea
- Nautical direction
- Nearer stern, a graduate with paper
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Abaft \A*baft"\ ([.a]*b[.a]ft"), prep. [Pref. a- on + OE. baft, baften, biaften, AS. be[ae]ftan; be by + [ae]ftan behind. See After, Aft, By.] (Naut.) Behind; toward the stern from; as, abaft the wheelhouse.
Abaft the beam. See under Beam.
Abaft \A*baft"\, adv. (Naut.) Toward the stern; aft; as, to go abaft.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"in or at the back part of a ship" (opposed to forward), 1590s, from Middle English on baft (Old English on bæftan) "backwards." The second component is itself a compound of be "by" (see by) and æftan "aft" (see aft). The word has been saved by the sailors (the stern being the "after" part of a vessel), the rest of the language having left it in Middle English.
Wiktionary
adv. 1 (context nautical obsolete English) Backwards. (Attested from around (1150 to 1350) until the late 15th century.)(R:SOED5: page=2) 2 (context nautical English) On the aft side; in the stern. (First attested in the early 17th century.) prep. (context nautical English) behind; toward the stern relative to some other object or position; aft of. (First attested around the late 15th century.)
WordNet
Usage examples of "abaft".
Crewmen on the deck scrambled for safety as the F14, its left wing dragging on steel, spun broadside, snapping the arrestor cables one after another as it hurtled toward a row of A6 Intruders just abaft of the island.
Spanish Cacafuego of thirty-two, and now Harris told the tale again, with even greater relish than usual, the captain in question being visible to them all, a yellow-haired figure, tall and clear on his quarterdeck, just abaft the wheel.
Meanwhile the bosun and his mates, together with the most experienced forecastle hands and tierers, roused out the best cable the Diane possessed, the most nearly new and unfrayed, a seventeen-inch cable that they turned end for end - no small undertaking in that confined space, since it weighed three and a half tons - and bent it to the best bower anchor by the wholly unworn end that had always been abaft the bitts: the bitter end.
Stephen, but he followed her nevertheless, and sitting abaft the tiller he watched her risk life and limb, very gently restrained in her wilder excesses by Padeen and the seamen, kind and endlessly patient: at one point he saw her ascend to the fore crosstrees, clinging to the rough and scaley neck of old Mould.
At the forward end the bridge with the squat funnel just abaft it, and the wireless cabin a tiny square box just abaft that, by itself with aerials reaching up to the triatic stay between the masts, out of the way so that there was no risk of anyone touching them while the transmitter was working.
Harris followed his gaze and saw the forecastle gun, the Bofors gun and a machine gun abaft the bridge, were now augmented by a dozen marksmen with rifles, and all aiming their weapons at Harris.
They passed the Indiaman a tow, and lugging their heavy burden through the sea they stood on, the wind just abaft the beam.
Doc Pol poked, prodded, tapped the tiny chest, shone lights into eyes and ears, managed to insert a thermometer abaft the twitching tail, and peered down the pink throat while Methuselah tried earnestly to bite him.
The spray split in two, showering the gunwales, then roared abaft, and--they were in the thick of the fight.
Tangye bring the probe to what had to be the engine room skylight, abaft the funnel.
She was on the starboard tack, with the light southwesterly wind abaft the beam.
Amarok had cleared the cuddy, a tiny compartment below and abaft the round deckhouselike structure, it must formerly have been packed solid.
Vanslyperken who had been walking the deck abaft, unaccompanied by his faithful attendant (for Snarleyyow remained coiled up on his master's bed), was meditating deeply how to gratify the two most powerful passions in our nature, love and revenge: at one moment thinking of the fat fair Vandersloosh, and of hauling in her guilders, at another reverting to the starved Smallbones and the comfort of a keel-hauling.
Why here, sir, the men washing the decks have found your carving-knife abaft, by the taffrail.
It was on the third morning after they sailed, that Vanslyperken walked the deck: there was no one but the man at the helm abaft.