Alternative form of afternoon: the time of day from noon until early evening.
A gents' toilet room might be found in a house that caters for the cheaper class of theatrical patronage, where the slangy language of the "goin' to the mat this aft?" style prevails. A gents toilet room is not found in the Southern Hotel. It either "men's" or "gentlemen's".
At, near, or towards the stern of a vessel (with the frame of reference within the vessel).
located at the back of a boat, ship, or airplane
Initialism of American Federation of Teachers.
From Old English æftan (“behind”); possibly originally superlative of of (“off”). See after.
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I came safe on board, but I felt anything but easy about the boat and the boy; my thoughts were not where they should be, for every moment I had to give the boat and the boy a look, and at last I saw a sea strike the boat aft, which gave it a send forward and under, and the next moment he was gone.