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形容詞

aftermost (not comparable)

1. (nautical) Nearest the stern of a vessel.

   Synonym: hindmost

   Antonym: foremost

   • 1644, Henry Manwayring, The Sea-mans Dictionary, London: John Bellamy, p. 101,^[1]

     All the after-most part of the ship, is called the sterne (by a generall appellation) but most exactly considered, only the very outwardmost part abaft is the sterne;

   • 1789, Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, London, Volume 1, Chapter 4, p. 148,^[2]

     My station during the engagement was on the middle-deck, where I was quartered with another boy, to bring powder to the aftermost gun;

   • 1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, “chapter 8”, in Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, Limited., published 1886, OCLC 1056292939, page 68:

     […] at night I slept on a blanket thrown on the deck boards at the aftermost end of the round-house, and right in the draught of the two doors.