astern : Idioms & Phrases
To bake astern
- to go stern foremost.
Webster 1913
To be astern of the reckoning
- to be behind the position given by the reckoning
Webster 1913
To drop astern
- to fall or be left behind.
(Naut.) , to go astern of another vessel; to be left behind; to slacken the speed of a vessel so as to fall behind and to let another pass a head.
Webster 1913
To fall astern
(Naut.) , to move or be driven backward; to be left behind; as, a ship falls astern by the force of a current, or when outsailed by another.
Webster 1913
To go astern
- to go backward, as from the action of currents or winds.