sternage

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noun

The stern of a vessel.

Scrabble 9

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nounsternage (plural not attested)
  1. no pluralobsoletenauticalThe stern of a vessel.

    Grapple your minds to sternage of this navy, And leave your England as dead midnight still.

    1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, prologue], lines 18-19

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