Definitions for sternpost

sternpost stern·post

Spelling: [sturn-pohst]
IPA: /ˈstɜrnˌpoʊst/

Sternpost is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 426 anagrams from letters in sternpost (enoprsstt).

Definitions for sternpost

noun

  1. an upright member rising from the after end of a keel; a rudderpost or propeller post.

Origin of sternpost

First recorded in 1570-80; stern2 + post1

Examples for sternpost

The after-body is generally whale-shaped, with the sternpost at a somewhat less angle than the stem.

That the sternpost should show, say, a quarter of an inch above the water-line aft, and the rudder be hung thereon.

Built for length on deck, there was no necessity for shortening up the water-line, and her sternpost had no very great rake.

After 1854 it was taken on deck from stem-head to sternpost, and certain deductions made for rake.

A few yards away from the sternpost was the jolly-boat with the crew.

Her frames were of bent elm, the sternpost and knees of tea-tree, while her keel was of tallow-wood.

Outside, copper shows wear and tear more quickly near the stem and sternpost and along the water-line.

A third buried itself in the sternpost, but fortunately did not explode.

Singularly enough a part of it was used for the sternpost of the frigate Essex.

In another house was the sternpost of a vessel, probably part of a wreck driven across from the coast of Africa.

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