stern
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Is stern a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (nautical) The rear part (after end) of a ship or other vessel.Examples: "Holonyms: watercraft < vessel"; "Old Applegate, in the stern, just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail, close to the stern."Synonyms: aft, poopAntonyms: bow, stem, forestem, fore, prow, prore
2. (figurative) The post of management or direction.Examples: "and sit chiefest stern of public weal"figuratively
verb (English)
1. (obsolete, ambitransitive) To steer, to direct the course of (a ship).ambitransitiveobsolete
2. (ambitransitive, nautical) To propel or move backward or stern-first in the water.ambitransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary