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The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea | 2006 | Copyright

aft, at or towards the stern or after part of a ship, as a word describing either position or motion. A gun may be mounted aft (an expression of position), and seamen sent aft to man it (an expression of motion), while fore and aft means from stem to stern. Aft is a contraction of abaft, though used in a general, not relative, sense. The adjective is after, e.g. the after part of a ship, as above.

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The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | Copyright

aft / aft/ • adv. & adj. at, near, or toward the stern of a ship or tail of an aircraft: [as adv.] Travis made his way aft | [as adj.] the aft compartment.

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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Copyright

aft (prop. naut.) in or near the hinder part. XVII (fore and aft). prob. alt. of earlier ABAFT, baft, after LG., Du. achter (see next).

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The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military | 2001 | Copyright

aft adv. & adj. at, near, or toward the stern of a ship or tail of a aircraft: he made his way to the aft cargo compartment.

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Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

aft •Taft •abaft, aft, craft, daft, draft, draught, engraft, graft, haft, kraft, raft, shaft, understaffed, unstaffed, waft •backdraft • handcraft • aircraft •stagecraft • spacecraft • statecraft •needlecraft • priestcraft • witchcraft •kingcraft • handicraft • woodcraft •Wollstonecraft • bushcraft •watercraft • hovercraft • crankshaft •camshaft • layshaft • driveshaft •turboshaft • countershaft •bereft, cleft, deft, eft, heft, klepht, left, reft, theft, weft •adrift, drift, gift, grift, lift, rift, shift, shrift, sift, squiffed, swift, thrift, uplift •airlift, chairlift, stairlift •facelift • skilift • shoplift • Festschrift •spendthrift • spindrift • snowdrift •makeshift • downshift • upshift •aloft, croft, loft, oft, soft, toft •hayloft • Ashcroft • Cockcroft •undercroft • Lowestoft •tuft, unstuffed •Delft

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