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Crossword-Solution: ABAFT 5 letters, 84 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Word Word Type Definition
Abaft prep. Behind; toward the stern from; as, abaft the wheelhouse.
Abaft adv. Toward the stern; aft; as, to go abaft.

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ABAFT anagram AFTAB, BAFTA

We have 84 clues for the answer “ABAFT”

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Near the back, nautically 1 answer
Astern: Naut. 1 answer
At the rear, to a sailor 1 answer
Back in the boat. 1 answer
Back of: Naut. 1 answer
Behind, on the briny 1 answer
Behind, shipwise 1 answer
Headed toward the stern 1 answer
In back of, at sea. 1 answer
In the rear of a vessel. 1 answer
In the rear, at sea 1 answer
Behind: Naut. 1 answer
Not forward, to a sailor 1 answer
Not forward, to a salt 1 answer
On the stern. 1 answer
Opposite of afore 1 answer
Rearward, on the briny 1 answer
To the back of 1 answer
Toward a boat's wake 1 answer
Towards the stern of a ship 1 answer
nautical terms direction 1 answer
To the rear, to a rear admiral 2 answers
To the rear, nautically 2 answers
Towards the stern 2 answers
To the rear of 2 answers
To the back, on a boat 2 answers
Behind, nautically 2 answers
Sailor's behind 2 answers
Sailor's back? 2 answers
Towards the back of the boat 2 answers
Toward the ship's rear 2 answers
At the stern 3 answers
Fore's opposite 3 answers
Behind at sea 3 answers
Rearward, at sea 3 answers
Rearward, to a rear admiral 3 answers
Toward the rear 3 answers
To the rear, at sea 3 answers
Toward the back of the ship 3 answers
Toward the rudder 4 answers
Toward the stern 4 answers
Toward the back of the boat 4 answers
To the stern 4 answers
Back in the navy 4 answers
Stern-ward 5 answers
Nautical word. 8 answers
AT OR NEAR OR TOWARD THE STERN OF A SHIP OR TAIL OF AN AIRPLANE 10 answers
Back at Sea 10 answers
BEHIND, ON A SHIP 10 answers
BEHIND OR IN THE REAR 10 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
NEAORC
Hint 3 another clue
COVER THE EYES
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Sentences with ABAFT (5)

Forty-three years ago colored travelers were not permitted in the cabin, nor allowed abaft the paddle-wheels of a steam vessel.
Collected Articles of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1994
There's a notice by the gangway, an' it seems to come amiss, For it says that second-classers 'ain't allowed abaft o' this'; An' there ought to be a notice for the fellows from abaft -- But the smell an' dirt's a warnin' to the first-salooners, aft; With their tooth and nail-brush, aft, With their cuffs 'n' collars, aft -- Their cigars an' books an' papers, an' their cap-peaks fore-'n'-aft.
In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses Henry Lawson 2008
Elfride’s eyes were occasionally to be found furtively gazing abaft, to learn if her enemy were really there.
A Pair of Blue Eyes Thomas Hardy 1995
Abaft the beam (Naut.), in an are of the horizon between a line that crosses the ship at right angles, or in the direction of her beams, and that point of the compass toward which her stern is directed.
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Noah Webster 1995
Two enormous red eyes were painted upon either side of her high, blunt bow, while just abaft the waist projected an enormous oar, or sweep, full forty feet in length--longer, in fact, than the vessel herself.
Moran of the Lady Letty Frank Norris 2008

Quotes with ABAFT (2)

[Babbington] "What did [the Doctor, Stephen] do to you, sir?"[Captain Aubrey] "Well, I am ashamed to say he took a pistol-ball out of the small of my back. It must have been when I turned to hail for more hands- thank God I did not. At the time I thought it was one of those vile horses that were capering about abaft the wheel.""Oh, sir, surely a horse would never have fired off a pistol?
Patrick O'Brian The Letter of Marque
The afternoon breeze would incite to a weird and flabby activity all that crowded mass of clothing, with its vague suggestions of drowned, mutilated and flattened humanity. Trunks without heads waved at you arms without hands; legs without feet kicked fantastically with collapsible flourishes; and there were long white garments, that taking the wind fairly through their neck openings edged with lace, became for a moment violently distended as by the passage of obese and invis…
Joseph Conrad Falk
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Appears in: Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 123 times in crossword archives (1954–2023).