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.
Webster 1913