Definition of "sternmost" []

• Nautical Closest to the stern. (adjective)

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• "It was almost dark when we came up with the sternmost chase, which we hailed, and inquired who they were."
• "The pirates were closer, little more than a kay away, and the sternmost of the two had shifted course slightly, to take a heading that would come up alongside the Seastag on the port side."
• "We then discovered the sternmost ship wearing also; wore ship immediately after her, and gave her a stern rake, she luffing to on our starboard bow and giving us her larboard broadside."