sternage
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]sternage (plural not attested)
- (obsolete, nautical) The stern of a vessel.
- 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, prologue], lines 18-19:
- Grapple your minds to sternage of this navy,
And leave your England as dead midnight still.
References
[edit]- “sternage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.