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Meanings of sternpost in English
Usage of sternpost in English
1
A third lodged in the sternpost, but failed to explode.
2
The sternpost recovered from the wreckage is, I am informed, included among the Laperouse relics preserved at Paris.
3
In another house was the sternpost of a vessel, probably part of a wreck driven across from the coast of Africa.
4
Henry George was a sailor; every part of a sailing ship was to him familiar-frombilge-water to pennant, from bowsprit to sternpost.
5
And as he went, one of that ghostly crew went also, and stood as he stood, with outstretched arm set on the dim sternpost.
6
Later, as we retraced our steps, were the stem and sternpost gone: you saw two strong wooden walls, between which the road took its course.
Frequent collocations
Sternpost through the time