adverb

definition

On the aft side; in the stern.

example

The mate sleeps abaft.

definition

Backwards.

preposition

definition

Behind; toward the stern relative to some other object or position; aft of.

Examples of abaft in a Sentence

Bertram Elliot, waiting to lead the Royals just abaft the bridge, was struck down by a shell which did fearful execution forward.

In late 1923, S-1 was modified by the addition of a steel seaplane hangar abaft the conning tower.

Thus the part of B caused by the permanent magnetism of hard iron must be corrected by permanent magnets horizontally placed in a fore and aft direction; the other part caused by vertical soft iron by means of bars of vertical soft iron, called Flinders bars, before or abaft the compass.

In a chamber abaft the mast the viking had been laid, with his weapons, and together with him were buried twelve horses, six dogs and a peacock.

B has reference to horizontal forces acting in a longitudinal direction in the ship, and caused partly by the permanent magnetism of hard iron, partly by vertical induction in vertical soft iron either before or abaft the compass.

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