afterpart

Example Sentences

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Its afterpart stands clear and showing its skin, like a dissected whale, but its forward part is enclosed in a big tank of water.

From Time Magazine Archive

The entire afterpart of the ship was on fire, and sailors were launching the lifeboat that was on our deck.

From "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor

Whether a sufficient number of tension wires remained to adequately support the afterpart of the nacelle remained a matter of doubt.

From The Airship "Golden Hind" by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)

We have rallied on the afterpart of the deck, and hold it still; but there is no time to be lost.”

From Ronald Morton, or the Fire Ships A Story of the Last Naval War by Hoggans, T.

No distinction of rank was made by the jailors on the Jersey, but the prisoners themselves agreed to allow the officers to occupy the extreme afterpart of the ship, between decks, called the gun-room.

From American Prisoners of the Revolution by Dandridge, Danske