sternage

sternage (plural not attested)

1. (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.

• “sternage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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