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1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Stern-walk, the old galleries formerly used to line-of-battle ships.
1893 18 July 6/1 Looking out of a stern port into the stern walk.
1915 ‘Bartimeus’ (new ed.) 161 While under the stern-walk a flock of gulls screeched and quarrelled.