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• n  the railing around the stern of a ship

• To such landlubbers, nautical language all sounds distressingly like shiver-me- mizzenmast or belay-the-taffrail or somesuch, and they quickly jump ship in search of books written .
• At the Spithead naval review of 1897, a trim ship some 100 feet long with Turbinia on her taffrail was observed by irate officials to be cutting deliberately across the bows of .
• Across the choppy Channel plowed the French destroyer Combattante, with the Tricolor whipping smartly from her taffrail.