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Definition of abaft:
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The high sharp prow had struck a glancing blow just abaft the anchor and sliced away the whole starboard side of the forecastle.
- "Command", William McFee. -
They had to rig up the compass abaft the wheel, and do some other things that you wouldn't understand, madam, such as running a spar out to stern to take sight by."
- "Mrs. Cliff's Yacht", Frank R. Stockton. -
Nothing appeared to indicate danger; the vessel was supposed to be seven or eight miles off the land, and the master was pointing out to Captain Maxwell her position upon the chart, when they felt her take the ground abaft; but so very easily, that many people on board were not aware that she had touched.
- "Narratives of Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy; between 1793 and 1849", William O. S. Gilly.