Usually means: Reverse motion of a ship.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. sternway: Merriam-Webster
  2. sternway: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sternway: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sternway: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sternway: Wordnik
  6. sternway: Wiktionary
  7. sternway: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. sternway: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. sternway: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. sternway: Dictionary.com
  11. Sternway: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. sternway: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Sternway: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. sternway: FreeDictionary.org
  15. sternway: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  16. sternway: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. sternway: Encyclopedia

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  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  3. Sternway: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (sternway)

▸ noun:  (nautical) Movement towards the stern; backwards motion of a vessel.

Similar:
stemming, headway, steerage, well, thruster, sterndrive, beam-steering, tack, tailswing, shiphandling, more...

Opposite:
headway, forward motion, progress

Types:
backing, astern, more...

Phrases:
to make sternway, more...

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Similar:
stemming, headway, steerage, well, thruster, sterndrive, beam-steering, tack, tailswing, shiphandling, more...

Opposite:
headway, forward motion, progress

Types:
backing, astern, more...

Phrases:
to make sternway, more...



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