abaft
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On deck you'll find seating ahead of the console, and room enough for a fighting chair abaft the helm seats.
From Time Magazine Archive
A cedar-lined hanging locker for your Dude Duds and gold Fountain bling is to starboard, just abaft this area.
From Time Magazine Archive
Down along 650 feet of deck raced 1,300 warrant officers, petty officers, sailors, Royal Marines to jam themselves on the tiny stern deck abaft the anti-aircraft guns.
From Time Magazine Archive
Smoke poured from a gaping hole in the Langley's side abaft her bridge.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Susan Marie was a thirty-foot stern-picker—a standard, well-tended San Piedro gill-netter—with her cabin just abaft of midship.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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