| 单词 | sternpost |
| 释义 | sternpost (once / 149612 pages) n WORD FAMILY sternpost: sternposts USAGE EXAMPLESThe effect of the whole was a leak in the extreme run, oozing, as far as could be ascertained, from somewhere about the sternpost. Whymper, Frederick, The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adve...(2012) The place was an after-hold, its for'ard end terminating in a strong transverse bulkhead, while the curved timbers and raking sternpost comprised the remaining walls. Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis), The Wireless Officer(2011) Slowly the cutter was backed in till its sternpost stuck on the smooth, even bottom. Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis), The Nameless Island—A Story of some...(2011) n (nautical) the principal upright timber at the stern of a vessel Hyper timber a beam made of wood |
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