astern

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• April 10. 2013 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  astern — adverb — english

  stern foremost or backward; "the steamer went astern at half speed"

• March 23. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  astern — adverb — english

  at or near or toward the stern of a ship or tail of an airplane; "stow the luggage aft"; "ships with square sails sail fairly efficiently with the wind abaft"; "the captain looked astern to see what the fuss was about"

• March 23. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  astern — adverb — english

  (of a ship or an airplane) behind; "we dropped her astern on the end of a seven-inch manilla, and she laid comfortably on the ebb tide"