aft
adverb, adjective/ɑːft/
/æft/
(specialist)- in, near or towards the back of a ship or an aircraft
- fore and aft of the cockpit
- The ship was moored to the dock fore and aft.
- the aft cabin/deck
Word Originearly 17th cent.: probably from obsolete baft ‘in the rear’, influenced by Low German and Dutch achter ‘abaft, after’.Want to learn more?
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