Word Meanings - STERNPOST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A straight piece of timber, or an iron bar or beam, erected on the extremity of the keel to support the rudder, and receive the ends of the planks or plates of the vessel.

• STRAIGHTLINED
  Having straight lines.
• Rudderhole
  The hole in the deck through which the rudderpost passes.
• Straightness
  The quality, condition, or state, of being straight; as, the straightness of a path.
• Supportress
  A female supporter.
• STRAIGHTOUT
  Acting without concealment, obliquity, or compromise; hence, unqualified; thoroughgoing. [Colloq. U.S.] Straight-out and generous indignation. Mrs. Stowe.
• Rudderless
  Without a rudder.
• Straight-out
  Acting without concealment, obliquity, or compromise; hence, unqualified; thoroughgoing.
• STRAIGHTPIGHT
  Straight in form or upright in position; erect. [Obs.] Shak.
• Pieceless
  Not made of pieces; whole; entire.
• Rudderpost
  The shank of a rudder, having the blade at one end and the attachments for operating it at the other.
• Straight-pight
  Straight in form or upright in position; erect.
• Timbered
  of Timber
• STRAIGHTSPOKEN
  Speaking with directness; plain-spoken. [Colloq. U.S.] Lowell.
• Rudderstock
  The main part or blade of the rudder, which is connected by hinges, or the like, with the sternpost of a vessel.

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