Word Meanings - STERNWAY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The movement of a ship backward, or with her stern foremost.

• Sternums
  of Sternum
• Sternforemost
  With the stern, instead of the bow, in advance; hence, figuratively, in an awkward, blundering manner.
• Sternutation
  The act of sneezing.
• Backwards
  With the back in advance or foremost; as, to ride backward.
• Sternite
  The sternum of an arthropod somite.
• Sternutative
  Having the quality of provoking to sneeze.
• Backwardation
  The seller's postponement of delivery of stock or shares, with the consent of the buyer, upon payment of a premium to the latter; -- also, the premium so paid. See Contango.
• Sternutatory
  Sternutative.
• Backwardly
  Reluctantly; slowly; aversely.
• Sternmost
  Farthest in the rear; farthest astern; as, the sternmost ship in a convoy.
• Sternway
  The movement of a ship backward, or with her stern foremost.
• Backwardness
  The state of being backward.
• Sternness
  The quality or state of being stern.
• Stern-wheel
  Having a paddle wheel at the stern; as, a stern-wheel steamer.

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