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How to use sternpost in a sentence

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The man is nearly swept off of the deck where he had been standing but gets wedged in between the sternpost and the rudder.
The stern was thrown upward 20 feet, and the rudder and sternpost were torn out of her.
Rudders fastened to the vessel's sternpost did not come into general use until after the time of William the Conqueror.
The most common form consists of a nearly flat, smooth surface of wood or metal hinged at its forward edge to the sternpost.
The sternpost was a high vertical slat with openwork scrolls and a small figure seated at the foot.
The whole canoe was painted red, with black-and-white details, and had feather streamers hung from the sternpost.
Like many ships today, the rudder of the cog ship is mounted on the sternpost.
After the rough dimensions of the keel, stem, and sternpost were achieved using an axe and saw, a plane was used to smooth and finely adjust their shapes.
Examples from Classical Literature
In another house was the sternpost of a vessel, probably part of a wreck driven across from the coast of Africa.
Her frames were of bent elm, the sternpost and knees of tea-tree, while her keel was of tallow-wood.
Singularly enough a part of it was used for the sternpost of the frigate Essex.
That the sternpost should show, say, a quarter of an inch above the water-line aft, and the rudder be hung thereon.
After 1854 it was taken on deck from stem-head to sternpost, and certain deductions made for rake.
Built for length on deck, there was no necessity for shortening up the water-line, and her sternpost had no very great rake.
The after-body is generally whale-shaped, with the sternpost at a somewhat less angle than the stem.
Outside, copper shows wear and tear more quickly near the stem and sternpost and along the water-line.
The explosion fractured the sternpost, distorted the starboard inboard propeller shaft, and flooded three compartments.
A third buried itself in the sternpost, but fortunately did not explode.
A few yards away from the sternpost was the jolly-boat with the crew.
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