How To Use Abaft In A Sentence
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Terry looked abaft himself and saw that the fearsome man had indeed gone.
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He broke into air 2 meters (6.5 feet) abaft of the sheltered interior of the starboard paddlewheel.
INCA GOLD
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Directly abaft the capstan was the fore-hatch, over which lay the path of those who walked around at the bars.
Down the Rhine Young America in Germany
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She's been needing new timbers abaft the beam there for years," quoth Captain Glass.
THE DEVILS OF FUATINO
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The blizzard made it impossible to see anything abaft of the bridge.
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The hooker needed no looking after in such weather as this, and the only individual, beside ourselves, abaft the mainmast was the helmsman.
The Castaways
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With six months' stores, she draws twenty-two foot nine, abaft.
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He made his way to the yam sacks lashed abaft the mizzenmast and got his bottle.
CHAPTER XI
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At night I see the two hold a sort of a collogue abaft the wheel, when I was on my trick at the helm.
The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, August 1850 of Literature, Science and Art.
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According to the dictionary, abaft can be used adverbially (in the stern half of the ship) or prepositionally (nearer the stern than; aft of).
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At sea a bonaventure was the French name for a very short mizzen mast, stepped abaft a tall mainmast—in much the same way that this young Indian lad tagged along behind the governor.
Champlain's Dream
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It's when the breeze comes from the side, and slightly abaft of abeam, that a vessel can achieve its fastest point of sail.
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It's when the breeze comes from the side, and slightly abaft of abeam, that a vessel can achieve its fastest point of sail.
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As the San Andreas was heading just a degree or two west of south and the wind was from the north it was almost directly abaft.
SAN ANDREAS
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A nao was a Portuguese term nef or nau in French for a full-rigged round ship, with large square-rigged sails on two or three masts, sometimes with a lateen-rigged mizzen and a smaller mast called a bonaventure abaft the mizzen.
Champlain's Dream
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`He'll probably stay on the bridge until we have the Cap des Rosiers light abaft the starboard beam, miss.
DOUBTFUL MOTIVES
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The mule is a vicious beast , not safe abaft the beam .
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The huge bull caught him abaft the wheel - house and slammed him in the air.
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The first of two hatches to the control room section is immediately abaft the sail, being the main access into the boat.
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The space abaft the mizenmast contained a dining-room about ten feet broad, and extending the whole width of the ship, a saloon, and two cabins.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
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When a mainsail was set up in the correct place abaft the genoa, the strain on the headsail sheet was observed to rise considerably.
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A built-in motor bracket cuts cockpit noise and adds security in big seas from abaft.
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The miscreants who had boarded the vessel had apparently been all over her in search of anything that might be worth carrying away, and, among other places, they had explored the lazarette, which lay beneath the cabin, a small hatchway just abaft the mizenmast giving access to it.
Overdue The Story of a Missing Ship
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A glance up the hatchway showed the giant that the arms he had planned to seize were defended by ten firelocks, and that, behind the open doors of the partition which ran abaft the mizenmast, the remainder of the detachment stood to their arms.
For the term of his natural life
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With this security he had established as his right a caboose abaft the funnel in the midships Bofors gunshield where the gun had been removed.
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The steamer's topsides were lowest just abaft the bridge and they had let down a ladder.
THE MAIN CAGES
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Almost every man on the quarter or main-decks of the "Serapis" was killed or wounded by the united fire of the enemy; and the calamity was increased by the accidental ignition of a cartridge of powder near one of the lower deck-ports, and the flames spreading from cartridge to cartridge all the way aft, blew up the whole of the officers and people that were quartered abaft the mainmast.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria
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The swell was either just abaft or on the beam and at night you couldn't see it.
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Charles Davis came abaft the 'midship-house, and, while we talked, many faces peered over the for'ard edge of the house and many forms slouched into view on the deck on each side of the house.
CHAPTER XLV
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And some of the day the xebec came and hit us abaft the beam.
Something Else Again
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Dropping down abaft the bridge, the first thing to come into view was the funnel.
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A nao was a Portuguese term nef or nau in French for a full-rigged round ship, with large square-rigged sails on two or three masts, sometimes with a lateen-rigged mizzen and a smaller mast called a bonaventure abaft the mizzen.
Champlain's Dream
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Abaft the foremast, and between it and the main hatch, stood a deck-house, the fore part of which constituted the berthage for the steerage passengers, while the after-part consisted of
The Cruise of the "Esmeralda"
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Abaft the hatchway was a door on the starboard side which I opened, and found a narrow dark passage.
The Frozen Pirate
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The carpenter had turned the capstan just abaft the mainmast into a perfectly acceptable desk.
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Abaft that again was the sail-room, well-stocked with bolts of canvas of varying degrees of coarseness and several sails, many of which seemed to be quite new, neatly rolled up into long bundles, stopped with spunyarn, and each labelled legibly with the description of the sail.
Overdue The Story of a Missing Ship
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ships with square sails sail fairly efficiently with the wind abaft
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Fidel Castro started his life journey from a sugar cane farm in Cuba 80 years ago; stood in the abaft and victoriously led the Cubans in the rebellion against the Batistans at the age of 32.
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Her interior was wholly rebuilt, so that the hold became main-cabin and staterooms, while abaft amidships were installed engines, a dynamo, an ice machine, storage batteries, and, far in the stern, gasoline tanks.
Bunches of Knuckles
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And then there's what Hyundai called the Ultimate package, a Maybach-like set of business-class power reclining seats in the back, with heating and massage; power headrests with tilt-in adjustable bolsters like some airline seats; a refrigerator in the center console, abaft of the rear seat/climate/entertainment control panel and 8-inch display; and three window shades for the full celebrity treatment.
Hyundai's Ur-Luxury Horse of a Different Dolor
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The next one abaft of his own he named "Killeny Boy's," and called on
CHAPTER X
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A nao was a Portuguese term nef or nau in French for a full-rigged round ship, with large square-rigged sails on two or three masts, sometimes with a lateen-rigged mizzen and a smaller mast called a bonaventure abaft the mizzen.
Champlain's Dream
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The bunk next on the port side to the cook's and abaft of it
CHAPTER X
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Then, making up my bunt and putting into it the slack of the clews, the leech and footrope and the body of the sail, I hauled it well up on the yard, smoothed the skin, brought it down abaft, and made fast the bunt-gasket round the mast.
The Mutineers
