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Adverb
/əˈstərn/,
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Behind or toward the rear of a ship or aircraft,
  1. Behind or toward the rear of a ship or aircraft
    • - the engine rooms lay astern
  2. (of a ship) Backward
    • - the lifeboat was carried astern by the tide
  1. stern foremost or backward; "the steamer went astern at half speed"
  2. aft: 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"
  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"
  4. behind; Beyond the stern when viewed from aboard
  5. Toward the stern; an object or vessel that is abaft another vessel or object.
  6. Toward the stern of a vessel, or behind the boat.
  7. A backward direction in the line of a vessel's fore and aft line; behind. If a vessel moves backwards it is said to move astern; opposite to ahead.
  8. Toward the rear, behind, or in back of your canoe.
  9. Behind. Usually at the rear of a vessel, as with a following craft.
  10. Abaft of the ship or if the ship is moving it means in reverse, or stern end first.
  11. Behind; outside the vessel, the opposite of ahead. To drop astern is to be left behind or to drift sternwards.
  12. Toward the rear of a ship or behind it. “They’re coming on us from astern” would indicate a ship approaching from behind.
  13. situated behind something else, as being to the rear of a specified craft. Also, a backward direction.
  14. In the direction of the stern. The opposite of ahead.
  15. Behind. To go astern means to reverse.
  16. Behind a vessel - Move in a reverse direction.
  17. in the direction of, at or near the stern. When going backwards in a vessel.
  18. behind; backward [tow the dinghy astern]
  19. behind a boat, or to travel backwards
  20. Directly behind the ship.
  21. This stands for behind the boat.
  22. toward the rear of the kayak
  23. In the back of the boat