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

The larger portion of their gallant ship had disappeared, but the afterpart still remained entire.

From The History of Little Peter, the Ship Boy by Kingston, William Henry Giles

“Hallo, sailor boy!” said Tom Long, superciliously; and then they stood looking at each other, quite unconsciously like a couple of Malay game cocks in bamboo cages, on the afterpart of the sampan.

From Middy and Ensign by Rowlandson, G. D.

Without saying more he turned away, not going below at once, but standing on the main deck near the office in the afterpart.

From Laid up in Lavender by Weyman, Stanley J.