The rear part (after end) of a ship or other vessel.
Holonyms: watercraft < vessel
To steer, to direct the course of (a ship).
To propel or move backward or stern-first in the water.
A surname.
Most likely from Old Norse stjórn (“control, steering”), related to stýra (“to steer”), from Proto-Germanic *stiurijaną, whence also English steer. Also possibly from Old Frisian stiarne (“rudder”), f...
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The post of management or direction.
and sit chiefest stern of public weal
A bird, the black tern, seabird.