abaft

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Tenders are carried in side garages on the upper deck abaft the pilothouse, and the top deck includes a glass-enclosed sky gym.

From Time Magazine Archive

Athena carries an owner�s party of 12 in six staterooms, all situated abaft the engineroom.

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The tail unit had been severed just abaft the toilet and was found practically intact about a mile from the wreck.

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Even as I looked several long red flashes spurted forward and abaft the funnel, and as I raced back to the cabin the passageway behind me heaved and filled with smoke.

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There was not a sail on the horizon, or a storm cloud in the sky; just a fair wind abaft the beam and the Astrea reaching for the Cape.

From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham