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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

STERNWAY

STERNWAY Stern "way `, n. (Naut. )

 

Defn: The movement of a ship backward, or with her stern foremost.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

sternway

stern way |ˈstərnˌwā ˈstərnweɪ | ▶noun backward movement of a ship: we begin making sternway toward the shoal.

 

Oxford Dictionary

sternway

stern |way |ˈstəːnweɪ | ▶noun [ mass noun ] backward movement of a ship: we begin making sternway towards the shoal.