What is the meaning of ABAFT. Phrases containing ABAFT
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Further aft than the beam: a relative bearing of greater than 90 degrees from the bow: "two points abaft the beam, starboard side" would describe an object lying 22.5 degrees toward the rear of the ship, as measured clockwise from a perpendicular line from the right side, center, of the ship, toward the horizon.
Toward the stern, relative to some object ("abaft the fore hatch"). Never use the term Aft of
Back area of the boat
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Behind; toward the stern from; as, abaft the wheelhouse.
n.
That part of the upper deck abaft the mainmast, including the poop deck when there is one.
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A fore-and-aft sail, bent to a gaff, and hoisted on a lower mast or on a small mast, called the trysail mast, close abaft a lower mast; -- used chiefly as a storm sail. Called also spencer.
adv.
Toward the stern; aft; as, to go abaft.
n.
A fore-and-aft sail, abaft the foremast or the mainmast, hoisted upon a small supplementary mast and set with a gaff and no boom; a trysail carried at the foremast or mainmast; -- named after its inventor, Knight Spencer, of England [1802].
adv. & a.
Near or towards the stern of a vessel; astern; abaft.
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Coming from a point well abaft the beam, but not directly astern; -- said of waves or any moving object.
n.
One of the triangular platforms in front of, and abaft, the paddle boxes of a steamboat.
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A light sail set abaft and beyong the leech of a boom-and-gaff sail; -- called also ringsail.
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A square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig only in that she has a trysail mast close abaft the mainmast, on which a large trysail is hoisted.
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