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How to use abaft in a sentence

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According to the dictionary, abaft can be used adverbially or prepositionally.
The first of two hatches to the control room section is immediately abaft the sail, being the main access into the boat.
Dropping down abaft the bridge, the first thing to come into view was the funnel.
When a mainsail was set up in the correct place abaft the genoa, the strain on the headsail sheet was observed to rise considerably.
A built-in motor bracket cuts cockpit noise and adds security in big seas from abaft.
The swell was either just abaft or on the beam and at night you couldn't see it.
With this security he had established as his right a caboose abaft the funnel in the midships Bofors gunshield where the gun had been removed.
The carpenter had turned the capstan just abaft the mainmast into a perfectly acceptable desk.
It's when the breeze comes from the side, and slightly abaft of abeam, that a vessel can achieve its fastest point of sail.
Terry looked abaft himself and saw that the fearsome man had indeed gone.
The blizzard made it impossible to see anything abaft of the bridge.
The vessel's bridge and accommodation are located aft, abaft her ten holds, which are serviced by two gantry cranes.
The main mast, located amidships abaft the deckhouse, is equipped with a main cargo boom.
In form, the example is nearly flat-bottomed, round bilged, double-ended, with flaring topsides, and greatest beam abaft midlength.
It is located along the port side of the passenger compartment abaft the driver's seat, and extends into the bilge area to within?
The operator's control station is on the starboard side, immediately abaft this bulwark.
A manual bilge pump was installed on the port side of the vehicle abaft the driver's seat, with a flexible overboard discharge hose.
A second control console is located at the after end of the boat deck abaft the funnels.
The wheelhouse, the accommodation block, and the engine room are at the after end of the ship, abaft the seventh cargo hold.
If positioned forward they shall be positioned abaft the collision bulkhead, in a sheltered position.
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He pitched us some breakfast, but he told us not to come abaft the midship compass.
I had them all ready, and went to my desk in my room, just abaft the pilot-house, for them.
Mr Culpepper was abaft, walking by himself, when Bob went up and accosted him.
The fore and main tops are sent up from abaft, and the mizzen from forward.
If it is just abaft the windlass, it will be convenient in case you wish to slip your cable.
At that time we did not know how far we might be abaft the Cape 9of Good Hope.
At night I see the two hold a sort of a collogue abaft the wheel, when I was on my trick at the helm.
At night I see the two hold a sort of collogue abaft the wheel, when I was on my trick at the helm.
The figuration of the main hatch showed a small square, and there was a companion or hatch-cover abaft the mainmast.
On these days you could make out that ship at a great distance by the multi-coloured grotesque riot going on abaft her mizzen mast.
The sound came from abaft his beam and his disquietude increased.
Like the Wave Knight class ships, these vessels can also perform unreps and are capable of refuelling abeam and abaft.
Up with your helm, abaft there, and let her go off square before the wind!
A spar abaft the fore and main mast, for hoisting the trysail.
Luxury starts from abaft, and is not wholly lost, even at the fore-peak.
Belay the binnacle and part the ship's periwig abaft the main-mast!
I turned to tompion, who was standing abaft near the helmsman.
There was a capstan just abaft the mainmast, and here the men assembled.
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