Aftermost

Quick meaning: Aftermost is an adjective meaning (nautical) Nearest the stern of a vessel.

Meaning

(nautical) Nearest the stern of a vessel.

More Meanings

1. (obsolete) Most recent.
2. (obsolete) At the very back.

Example Sentences

And he put the handmaids and their children, first: and Leah and her children, after; and Rachel and Ioseph, aftermost.

My station during the engagement was on the middle-deck, where I was quartered with another boy, to bring powder to the aftermost gun;

[…] at night I slept on a blanket thrown on the deck boards at the aftermost end of the round-house, and right in the draught of the two doors.

All the after-most part of the ship, is called the sterne (by a generall appellation) but most exactly considered, only the very outwardmost part abaft is the sterne;

Synonyms for aftermost

Depending on context, synonyms include hindmost.

Antonyms for aftermost

Common opposites include foremost.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include aft, after, aftward, aftmost, sternmost, sternward.

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