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Meaning of astern

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  astern
      adv 1: stern foremost or backward; "the steamer went astern at
             half speed"
      2: 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" [syn: {aft},
         {abaft}, {astern}] [ant: {fore}, {forward}]
      3: (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"

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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