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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Astern \A*stern"\, adv. [Pref. a- + stern.] (Naut.)
     1. In or at the hinder part of a ship; toward the hinder
        part, or stern; backward; as, to go astern.
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     2. Behind a ship; in the rear. "A gale of wind right astern."


        --De Foe. "Left this strait astern." --Drake.
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     {To bake astern}, to go stern foremost.
  
     {To be astern of the reckoning}, to be behind the position
        given by the reckoning.
  
     {To drop astern}, to fall or be left behind.
  
     {To go astern}, to go backward, as from the action of
        currents or winds.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  astern
       adv 1: stern foremost or backward; "the steamer went astern at half
              speed"
       2: at or near or toward the stern of a ship or tail of an
          airplane; "stow the luggage aft"; "ships with square sails
          sail fairly efficiently with the wind abaft"; "the captain
          looked astern to see what the fuss was about" [syn: {aft},
           {abaft}] [ant: {fore}]
       3: (of a ship or an airplane) behind; "we dropped her astern on
          the end of a seven-inch manilla, and she laid comfortably
          on the ebb tide"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  25 Moby Thesaurus words for "astern":
     a rebours, a reculons, abaft, aft, after, against the grain,
     anticlockwise, arear, ass-backwards, away, back, backward,
     backwards, baft, counterclockwise, fore and aft, fro, hindward,
     hindwards, in reverse, rear, rearward, rearwards, retrad,
     widdershins
  
  

















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