The upper deck was armed with 9-pounders, the aftermost port being vacant, and filled up when required.
The bow and aftermost ports were empty, and in case of necessity the former was filled by an 18-pounder from the opposite side, and the latter by a 24-pounder from the stern-ports.
At the end of the aftermost cabin rises a tall pole with an emblem at the top, which is believed to represent the district or town to which the owner of the boat belonged.
When we came on deck, we found a cluster of people at the aftermostpart of the felucca.
The round-house was a room, as near as might be, sixteen feet long, and about fourteen feet broad at the end next the quarterdeck, narrowing to ten feet wide at the aftermost part.
The shot came in at the third aftermost port on the starboard side, and dismounted the carronade, smashing the slide, and wounding three men.
I was stationed to the four aftermost carronades on the quarter-deck.
At length, however, he consented to their disposing of the fore castle and aftermost quarter-deck guns, together with some of the shot, and other articles of very great weight.
One shot cut the aftermost main-shroud; another went through the boat on the booms.
Thus it is evident, that either the foremost or the aftermost keel can be raised or lowered, independently of the other, if circumstances require it.
Drake, however, might be crushed piecemeal in the offing when still with his aftermost ships in the Sound.
In the ruins of the aftermost cabin he had found a considerable sum of money, quite enough to provide for himself and companions without applying to anyone for help.
And so they followed into a small dining-room in the aftermost house.
Each turret contains a pair of guns, and the two innermost turrets are perched up on a species of protected tower or pedestal in such a way that they can fire directly over the foremost and aftermost turrets.
In later types the foremost and aftermost guns in these batteries were placed at an angle and the port "recessed" in the ship's side, so that these guns could fire on the broadside and nearly ahead as well.
One round shot entered her aftermost port, and in its passage killed the powder-boy, took off six legs of seamen at the gun, dismounted a carronade, and fell into the water beyond.
The upper foremost andaftermost pieces of dead wood; being crooked pieces of timber, the bolting of which connects the keel with the stem and stern posts.
The foremost and aftermost plank in a strake, which drops short of the stem or stern-post.
In the aftermost part of the hold: properly lined to receive the bread, and keep it dry.
In large vessels it is an additional aftermost mast; thus any sail set on the ensign-staff would be a jigger.
The foremost and aftermost planks of the bottom, within and without.
The lowest and aftermost part of the orlop deck, where the biscuit is kept, separated by a bulk-head from the rest; but any place parted off from below deck for containing the bread is so designated.
The aftermost and highest part of a large ship's hull.
The name latterly has been officially applied to the spanker, both being the aftermost sails of a ship, the ring-tail being only an addition, as a studding or steering sail.
A boom main-sail is balanced by rolling up a portion of the clew, or lower aftermost corner, and fastening it strongly to the boom.
Rowing) Defn: The man who rows the aftermost oar, and whose stroke is to be followed by the rest.
The doors of the aftermost ones were however still closed.
Five of these were contained in the machinery spaces and one was placed aft of the aftermost main bulkhead.
The inner skin was not continued aft of the aftermost bulkhead, for the reason that at the stern it would have been unnecessary and somewhat inconvenient.
With the exception of the five in the aftermost compartment, they were "double-ended," with the furnaces facing fore and aft.
The shot came in our third aftermost port on the starboard side, and dismounted the carronade, smashing the slide and wounding three men.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "aftermost" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: aft; after; back; backward; hind; hindmost; last; posterior; postern; rear; rearward; retrograde; tail
