sternpost

Anglais

Étymologie

Du moyen anglais tardif ^[1]. → voir stern et post ^[1].

Nom commun

sternpost

1. (Navigation) Étambot.
   • "Then the steersman took his place at the right of the sternpost, looking forward to the ship's master, who stood on a plank let in at the jointure of the keel with the stem, which was carved as the Old Serpent of Andrad." — (Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea, 1968, éd. 2004, ISBN 0553383043)

Dérivés

• sternpost-knee ^[1]

Références

• ^[1] : The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 1973