- the back end of a ship or boat compare bow1, poopTopics Transport by waterc2Word Originnoun Middle English: probably from Old Norse stjórn ‘steering’, from stýra ‘to steer’.
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See stern in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryfrom stem to stern
- all the way from the front of a ship to the back
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