sternpost in English
noun
1
the central upright structure at the stern of a vessel, typically bearing the rudder.
To this day, after she was brought down twice, once by a hurricane and the again by the failure of a few 50-cent pine dowels that served as stopwaters along the sternpost , I still struggle to keep my wooden boat afloat.
Use "sternpost" in a sentence
Below are sample sentences containing the word "sternpost" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "sternpost", or refer to the context using the word "sternpost" in the English Dictionary.
1. Afterdeck - a deck abaft of midships deck - any of various platforms built into a vessel fantail - an overhang consisting of the fan-shaped part of the deck extending aft of the sternpost of a ship
2. Hypernyms ("Afterdeck" is a kind of): deck (any of various platforms built into a vessel) Meronyms (parts of "Afterdeck"): fantail (an overhang consisting of the fan-shaped part of the deck extending aft of the sternpost of a ship)