Definition of "abaft" []

• Toward the stern. (adverb)
• Toward the stern from. (preposition)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The bunk next on the port side to the cook's and abaft of it"
• "The next one abaft of his own he named "Killeny Boy's," and called on"
• "Her interior was wholly rebuilt, so that the hold became main-cabin and staterooms, while abaft amidships were installed engines, a dynamo, an ice machine, storage batteries, and, far in the stern, gasoline tanks."