Crossword-Solution: ASTERN 6 letters, 171 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Astern	adv.	In or at the hinder part of a ship; toward the hinder part, or stern; backward; as, to go astern.
Astern	adv.	Behind a ship; in the rear.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
ASTERN	anagram	ANTRES, ENSTAR, RETANS, SENTRA, STEARN, STERNA, TRANES

We have 171 clues for the answer “ASTERN”

Clue	Answers
" . . . ___ and distant shore": Thayer	1 answer
After aft.	1 answer
At the rear of an aircraft	1 answer
At the ship's back	1 answer
Back in the bay	1 answer
Back on a brigantine	1 answer
Back on deck	1 answer
Back on one's yacht?	1 answer
Back on the waves?	1 answer
Backward, at sea	1 answer
Backward, nautically	1 answer
Backward, upon the waters	1 answer
Behind a Boeing	1 answer
Behind a jet	1 answer
Behind a liner	1 answer
Behind a ship	1 answer
Behind a vessel	1 answer
Behind in the regatta	1 answer
Behind the back of a ship/boat	1 answer
Behind the ship	1 answer
Behind, asea	1 answer
Behind, to Barnacle Bill	1 answer
Behind, to Blackbeard	1 answer
Boater's behind	1 answer
Boatman's backward	1 answer
Following, at sea	1 answer
From fore toward aft	1 answer
Heading back	1 answer
How some cruise passengers are looking	1 answer
In a backward direction	1 answer
In a position behind	1 answer
In the back of the boat	1 answer
In the wake	1 answer
In the wake of (a ship).	1 answer
Like Confucianism or Taoism	1 answer
Like a wake	1 answer
Like an outboard motor	1 answer
Nimitz's behind	1 answer
Not ahead	1 answer
Not taking a bow?	1 answer
Off the rear, nautically speaking	1 answer
Opposite of ahead	1 answer
Paddle wheel's place, maybe	1 answer
Rearward, on the Pacific	1 answer
Site for a wake	1 answer
Tar's back	1 answer
To the back of the boat	1 answer
To the rear (of a ship)	1 answer
To the rear, on a ship	1 answer
To the rear, to a salt	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

ETERA

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with ASTERN (5)

Some time before I had reduced our speed, for we had left the Valley Dor many miles astern, and I felt comparatively safe.

The Gods of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993

Stryver shouldered his way through the law, like some great engine forcing itself through turbid water, and dragged his useful friend in his wake, like a boat towed astern.

A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens 1994

All these defects have been remedied in later models; but the knowledge did not help us any that day aboard the slowly settling Coldwater, with an angry sea roaring beneath, a tempest raging out of the west, and 30° only a few knots astern.

The Lost Continent Edgar Rice Burroughs 1994

Every outward-bound boat had its flag flying at the jack-staff, and sometimes a duplicate on the verge staff astern.

Life On The Mississippi, Complete Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 2006

When the oar gave way we were about half a mile from the ship, but, being fortunately to windward, we got into the wake of the floating light, at about 250 fathoms astern, just as the landing-master’s boat reached the vessel.

Records of a Family of Engineers Robert Louis Stevenson 2010

Quotes with ASTERN (2)

I steer my bark with hope in my heart leaving fear astern.

Thomas Jefferson

Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her.

Jack Adams

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 255 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).