Definition of "astern of" [astern of]

• Behind (preposition)

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• "After we had rowed, or rather driven about a league and a half, as we reckoned it, a raging wave, mountain-like, came rolling astern of us, and plainly bade us expect the coup de grace."
• "Then we started to go ashore, and came up with the dinghy astern of the King's big ship; and his men began to shout to me, since I was getting ahead of them, to land alongside of the Banner of Saint Denis, which was going in front of the King in another vessel."
• "Toward noon, when Nürnberg stopped to examine two Chilean ships, she fell back twenty-five miles astern of the flagship."