adj. severe of countenance manner or feeling: austere: harsh: unrelenting: steadfast.—adv. Stern′ly.—n. Stern′ness.
n. the hind-part of a vessel: the rump or tail of an animal.—v.t. to back a boat to row backward.—ns. Stern′age (Shak.) the steerage or stern of a ship; Stern′board backward motion of a ship: loss of way in tacking; Stern′-chase a chase in which one ship follows directly in the wake of another; Stern′-chās′er a cannon in the stern of a ship.—adj. Sterned having a stern of a specified kind.—ns. Stern′-fast a rope or chain for making fast a ship’s stern to a wharf &c.; Stern′-frame the sternpost transoms and fashion-pieces of a ship’s stern.—adj. Stern′most farthest astern.—ns. Stern′port a port or opening in the stern of a ship; Stern′post the aftermost timber of a ship which supports the rudder; Stern′sheets the part of a boat between the stern and the rowers; Stern′son the hinder extremity of a ship’s keelson to which the sternpost is bolted; Stern′way the backward motion of a vessel; Stern′-wheel′er (U.S.) a small vessel with one large paddle-wheel at the stern.
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