Definition of abaft Abaft
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- abaft (prep.)
Behind; toward the stern from; as, abaft the wheelhouse. - abaft (adv.)
Toward the stern; aft; as, to go abaft.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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abaft
(Of a boat) Toward the stern from; behind. -
abaft
(Of a boat) Toward the stern.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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abaft
a-baft′, adv. and prep. on the aft, hind, or stern part of a ship: behind. [Pfx. a-, for A.S. on, on, and bæftan, after, behind; itself made up of pfx. be-, and æftan. See Aft.]
Marine DictionaryUniversal Dictionary of the Marine ⚓️
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abaft
arriere, (abaftan, Sax. behind) the hinder part of a ship, or all those parts both within and without, which lie towards the stern, in opposition to afore; which see. -
abaft
arriere de, is also used as a preposition, and signifies further aft, or nearer the stern; as, the barricade stands abaft the main mast, i. e. behind it, or nearer the stern.
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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abaft
This word, generally speaking, means behind, inferred relatively, beginning from the stem and continuing towards the stern, that is, the hinder part of the ship.--Abaft the beam implies any direction between a supposed transverse line amidships and the stern, whether in or out of the ship. It is the relative situation of an object with the ship, when that object is placed in the arc of the horizon contained between a line at right angles with the keel and the point of the compass which is directly opposite the ship's course. An object--as a man overboard--is described by the look-out man at the mast-head as abeam, before, or abaft the beam, by so many points of the compass. As a vessel seen may be "three points before the beam," &c.
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