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sternpost


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Sternpost  \Stern"post`\,  n.  (Naut.) 
  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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  sternpost 
  n  :  (nautical)  the  principal  upright  timber  at  the  stern  of  a 
  vessel 




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