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n.
A light sail set abaft and beyong the leech of a boom-and-gaff sail; -- called also ringsail.
n.
A square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig only in that she has a trysail mast close abaft the mainmast, on which a large trysail is hoisted.
n.
A fore-and-aft sail, abaft the foremast or the mainmast, hoisted upon a small supplementary mast and set with a gaff and no boom; a trysail carried at the foremast or mainmast; -- named after its inventor, Knight Spencer, of England [1802].
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One of the triangular platforms in front of, and abaft, the paddle boxes of a steamboat.
n.
That part of the upper deck abaft the mainmast, including the poop deck when there is one.
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Behind; toward the stern from; as, abaft the wheelhouse.
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Coming from a point well abaft the beam, but not directly astern; -- said of waves or any moving object.
n.
A fore-and-aft sail, bent to a gaff, and hoisted on a lower mast or on a small mast, called the trysail mast, close abaft a lower mast; -- used chiefly as a storm sail. Called also spencer.
adv. & a.
Near or towards the stern of a vessel; astern; abaft.
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Toward the stern; aft; as, to go abaft.
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