Crossword-Solution: STERNWAY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sternway | n. | The movement of a ship backward, or with her stern foremost. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “STERNWAY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Backward movement of a ship. | 1 answer |
| Movement of a ship backward. | 1 answer |
| Ship's backward movement | 1 answer |
| movement of a vessel sternforemost | 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.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with STERNWAY (5)
When the tormenting sensation had passed off I asked: “Do you feel strong enough to prevent the rudder taking charge if she gets sternway on her? It wouldn’t do to get something smashed about the steering-gear now.
When the _Elsinore_ was up in the eye of the wind, and making sternway, I found that by putting the wheel sharply over, one way or the other, I could swing her bow off.
The mass of iron fell half in-board upon the now stayed boat, and gave her sternway, with a splintered plank.
The boat, which all through answered the helm beautifully, fell off the moment Lucy ported the helm, and thus they escaped the impending and terrible danger of her making sternway.
Then the ship would become unmanageable and drift away, with the possibility of getting excessive sternway on her and so damaging rudder or propeller, the Achilles’ heel of a ship in pack-ice.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1958–1982).