Crossword-Solution: STERNPOST
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sternpost | n. | A straight piece of timber, or an iron bar or beam, erected on the extremity of the keel to support the rudder, and receive the ends of the planks or plates of the vessel. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “STERNPOST”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Ship's timber aft from keel to deck. | 1 answer |
| Upright structural member attached to the very back of a boat's keel | 1 answer |
| main upright timber or structure at the stern of a vessel | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with STERNPOST (5)
The type of rudder is unaffected by the new rules, so we may expect to see the Long-Davidson make (the patent on which has just expired) come largely into use henceforward, though the strain on the sternpost in turning at speeds over forty miles an hour is admittedly very severe.
The _Endurance_ groaned and quivered as her starboard quarter was forced against the floe, twisting the sternpost and starting the heads and ends of planking.
Henry George was a sailor; every part of a sailing ship was to him familiar--from bilge- water to pennant, from bowsprit to sternpost.
The sternpost recovered from the wreckage is, I am informed, included among the Laperouse relics preserved at Paris.
Later, as we retraced our steps, were the stem and sternpost gone: you saw two strong wooden walls, between which the road took its course.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1942).