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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. (nautical, aeronautical) situated at or toward the stern or tail;


ADVERB (1)

1. at or near or toward the stern of a ship or tail of an airplane;
- Example: "stow the luggage aft"
- Example: "ships with square sails sail fairly efficiently with the wind abaft"
- Example: "the captain looked astern to see what the fuss was about"
[syn: aft, abaft, astern]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Aft \Aft\ ([.a]ft), adv. & a. [AS. [ae]ftan behind; orig. superl. of of, off. See After.] (Naut.) Near or towards the stern of a vessel; astern; abaft. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

aft adv 1: at or near or toward the stern of a ship or tail of an airplane; "stow the luggage aft"; "ships with square sails sail fairly efficiently with the wind abaft"; "the captain looked astern to see what the fuss was about" [syn: aft, abaft, astern] [ant: fore, forward] adj 1: (nautical, aeronautical) situated at or toward the stern or tail [ant: fore(a)]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

20 Moby Thesaurus words for "aft": abaft, after, aftermost, astern, back, backward, baft, fore and aft, hind, hinder, hindermost, hindhand, hindmost, posterior, postern, rear, rearmost, rearward, retrograde, tail
V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016):

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