"Taffrail" is a word in ENGLISH
The upper part of a ship's stern, which is flat like a
table on the top, and sometimes ornamented with carved work; the rail
around a ship's stern.
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It was a particularly tough football game, and nerves were on edge. The home team had been the victim of three or four close calls, and they were now trailing the visitors by a touch-down and a field goal. When the official called yet another close one in the visitors' favor, the home quarterback blew his top.How many times can you do this to us in a single game?" he screamed. "You were wrong on the out-of-bounds, you were wrong on that last first down, and you missed an illegal tackle in the first quarter." The official just stared. The quarterback seethed, but he suppressed the language that might get him tossed from the game. "What it comes down to," he bellowed, "is that you STINK!" The official stared a few more seconds. Then he bent down, picked up the ball, paced off 15 yards, and put the ball down. He turned to face the steaming quarterback. The official finally replied, "And how do I smell from here?"
To ward the stern of the ship; -- applied to any object in the rear part of a vessel; as …
Read the complete definitionAn ornamental appendage of wood at the ship's stern, usually spreading like a fan and curved like a bird's feather.
Read the complete definitionIn or at the hinder part of a ship; toward the hinder part, or stern; backward; as, to go astern.
Read the complete definitionA projecting gallery once common at the stern of large ships.
Read the complete definitionThe convexity of a ship behind, under the stern.
Read the complete definitionCurved arms of timber or iron, projecting over a ship's side of stern, having tackle to raise or lower a …
Read the complete definitionA Venetian vessel, with a square stern, having only a mainmast, jigger mast, and bowsprit; also a sloop of war …
Read the complete definitionA frame, like a balcony, projecting from the stern or quarter of a ship, and hence called stern gallery or …
Read the complete definitionThe compass or sharpness of a ship's stern under the water, having a tendency to make her keep a good …
Read the complete definitionA longitudinal timber, or series of timbers scarfed together, extending from stem to stern along the bottom of a vessel. …
Read the complete definitionThe part of a ship's side where the planking begins to curve toward bow and stern.
Read the complete definitionThe larboard or left side of a ship (looking from the stern toward the bow); as, a vessel heels to …
Read the complete definitionTo enfilade; to fire in a direction with the length of; in naval engagements, to cannonade, as a ship, on …
Read the complete definitionThe after or rear end of a ship or other vessel, or of a boat; the part opposite to the …
Read the complete definitionThe end of a ship's keelson, to which the sternpost is bolted; -- called also stern knee.
Read the complete definitionThe movement of a ship backward, or with her stern foremost.
Read the complete definitionulin n stern, the rear end of a ship. v [AN; b6(1)] steer a boat from the stern.
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