abaft

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Behind; toward the stern relative to some other object or position; aft of. (defdate)

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''The captain stood abaft the wheelhouse.''

(quote-book)|title=The Second Part of (w)|author=Miguel de Cervantes|location=London|publisher=Edward Blount|chapter=63|page=432|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A18335.0001.001
1773, (w), ''An Account of a Voyage Around the World,'' Book(nbs)3, Chapter(nbs)5, in (w) (ed.), ''An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty: for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere,'' London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, Volume(nbs)3, p.(nbs)558,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004846500.0001.003

(..) we could hear the water rush in a little abaft the foremast, about three feet from the keel: this determined me to clear the hold intirely.

{{quote-book|en|year=1869|author=Mark Twain|title=The Innocents Abroad|location=Hartford|publisher=The American Publishing Company|chapter=3|page=35|url=https://archive.org/details/innocentsabroad00twairich/page/35/mode/1up?q=abaft
{{quote-book|en|year=1959|author=Robert A. Heinlein|title=Starship Troopers|location=New York|publisher=Ace|year_published=2010|chapter=13|page=260|url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=rmEIDAAAQBAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcoverv=onepage&q&f=false
On the aft side; in the stern. (defdate)

''We drifted with the wind abaft.''

''The mate sleeps abaft.''

{{quote-text|en|year=1599|author=Nicholas Downton|chapter=The firing and sinking of the stout and warrelike Carack called ''Las Cinque Llaguas''|editor=Richard Hakluyt|title=The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation|location=London|section=Volume 2, Part 2, p. 200|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A02495.0001.001
(quote-text)’s Last Voyage|location=London|publisher=E. Newbery|section=Part 1, p. 103|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004895036.0001.000
(RQ:Melville Moby-Dick)
{{quote-book|en|year=1954|author=Aldous Huxley|title=The Doors of Perception|location=New York|publisher=Perennial|year_published=1970|page=72|url=https://archive.org/details/doorsofperceptio00huxl/page/72/mode/1up?q=abaft
Backwards. (defdate)(R:SOED5)