abaft
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Is abaft a Scrabble word?
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Definition
prep (English)
1. (nautical) Behind; toward the stern relative to some other object or position; aft of.Examples: "The captain stood abaft the wheelhouse."; "[…] two drunken Turkes, that were in the Frigot with twelue others, discharged two Calieuers, with which they killed two Souldiours, that stood abaft our Gally."; "1773, James Cook, An Account of a Voyage Around the World, Book 3, Chapter 5, in John Hawkesworth (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 3, p. 558, […] 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."Synonyms: abaft of
adv (English)
1. (nautical) On the aft side; in the stern.Examples: "We drifted with the wind abaft."; "The mate sleeps abaft."; "The Exchange also being farther from the fire, afterward was more easily cleared, and fell off from abaft."
2. (nautical, obsolete) Backwards.obsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary