Afterguard
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Afterguard is a noun meaning (sailing) The members of a yacht's crew who attend to the aft sails.
Meaning
(sailing) The members of a yacht's crew who attend to the aft sails.
More Meanings
- A drudge; somebody tasked with menial work.
- (historical, nautical) The seaman or seamen stationed on the poop or after part of a ship, to attend the after-sails.
Example Sentences
Yet from something in the outline and carriage, Billy took him to be, and correctly, one of the afterguard.
There were times when the whole crew refused their duty; and we of the afterguard were twice got under arms—being the first time that ever I bore weapons—in the fear of mutiny.
This is his sixth Cup campaign but his first as skipper, a position he inherited after the helmsman Russell Coutts, Butterworth’s longtime alter ego in the afterguard, bolted from Alinghi in 2004.
Word Forms
- afterguards
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include afterguardsman, bow guard, outguard, sideboy, landguard, guardship.
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