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sterncastle

n. An aftcastle.

Usage examples of "sterncastle".

Captain Foyn ran out of the sterncastle, sword waving, hurling curses at the thing that had taken one of his men.

Madoc and Riryd stood on the sterncastle and tried to get a sight of a shore.

Annesta, too, would sit nearby and listen to her husband, but the sunlight was too fierce for her milky skin, and usually she would come out only at such time of day that the sterncastle deck was shadowed by the sail.

He rushed toward the sterncastle to get the sounding horn and alert the captains of the other ships, but stopped suddenly and peered over the rail.

On the sterncastle, Annesta covered her mouth with her hand and turned her daughter away from the spectacle.

Moore stood on the sterncastle, looking down at the chaos spilling onto the docks from the main deck of the ship.

Jimmy glanced back to the sterncastle and saw the captain keeping his own hand on the tiller as he barked orders.

A fresh rush of enemies from the sterncastle forced Blade to turn his attention there.

Instead he led the way to the door of the sterncastle, A few smart blows with a battle-ax drove it off its hinges, and Blade stepped into the musty gloom of the after cabins.

The falling mast had crashed through the sterncastle and was hanging over the side, dragging the carrack further over.

He shushed it and then, stepping into the deeper dark of the sterncastle, he knew something was wrong.

Looking out the large sterncastle windows, he saw the little moon rising as he considered what Amos had Just said.

She mounts a catapult on the sterncastle and a ballista before the mast, too.

He and his score and a half or so of men here against the sterncastle and an approximate equal number backed against the forecastle were all that was now left of the boarders.

The more numerous French had but just closed to completely encircle Bass and his following when the Arabian knight emerged from the sterncastle to smite the foemen with cold steel and hot lead.