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• n  (nautical) the principal upright timber at the stern of a vessel

• The sternpost flaws might have been the fault of the shipbuilders or of the subcontractor who supplied all the castings.
• Her line of keel, almost straight from the heel of the sternpost to the fore-end of the water line, gives her a decided gain in wetted surface over all the others, makes her .
• The Fiume burst into flames from foremast funnel to sternpost.