Structure behind the mizzenmast on a large sailing ship, usually containing the captain's cabin.
1 An order went up from the Blue sterncastle : 'Raise the tower!'
2 Nok was at the tall sterncastle , where he would oversee the coming battle.
3 He leaned over the railing of the sterncastle .
4 Then he returned to the sterncastle .
5 He was surprised to find that Moqorro and two of his fiery fingers had joined them on the sterncastle .
6 That was when Tyrion noticed Penny, watching the mummery from the steep wooden stair that led down beneath the sterncastle .
7 Eliza gestured toward much the finest ship in the basin, a Ship of Force with a sterncastle magnificently sculpted, and spread thick with gold leaf.
8 The waterman made them drift beneath the jutting sterncastles of the three hulls.
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