stern foremost or backward; the steamer went astern at half speed'

at or near or toward the stern of a ship or tail of an airplane; stow the luggage aft; ships with square sails sail fairly efficiently with the wind abaft; the captain looked astern to see what the fuss was about

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(of a ship or an airplane) behind; we dropped her astern on the end of a seven-inch manilla, and she laid comfortably on the ebb tide'