OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 9959

stern

/stɜːn/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
popa
The rear part (after end) of a ship or other vessel.
Holonyms: watercraft < vessel
Old Applegate, in the stern, just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and manage…
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