sternway

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: stern=way

CIDE DICTIONARY

sternway, n. 

 The movement of a ship backward, or with her stern foremost.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

sternway, n. Naut. a backward motion or impetus of a ship.

THESAURUS

sternway

Brownian movement, advance, angular motion, ascending, ascent, axial motion, backflowing, backing, backset, backsliding, backward motion, backward step, career, climbing, course, current, descending, descent, downward motion, drift, driftage, driftway, ebbing, flight, flow, flux, forward motion, headway, lapse, leeway, mounting, oblique motion, ongoing, onrush, passage, plunging, progress, radial motion, random motion, reaction, recession, recidivation, recidivism, reentry, reflowing, refluence, reflux, regress, regression, relapse, retroaction, retrocession, retroflexion, retrogradation, retrogression, retrusion, return, rising, rollback, run, rush, set, setback, sideward motion, sinking, soaring, steerageway, stream, subsiding, throwback, traject, trajet, trend, upward motion, way

ROGET THESAURUS

sternway

Navigation

N navigation, aquatics, boating, yachting, ship, oar, paddle, screw, sail, canvas, aileron, natation, swimming, fin, flipper, fish's tail, aerostation, aerostatics, aeronautics, balloonery, balloon, ballooning, aviation, airmanship, flying, flight, volitation, wing, pinion, rocketry, space travel, astronautics, orbital mechanics, orbiting, voyage, sail, cruise, passage, circumnavigation, periplus, headway, sternway, leeway, fairway, mariner, flight, trip, shuttle, run, airlift, sailing, volant, aerostatic, seafaring, nautical, maritime, naval, seagoing, coasting, afloat, navigable, aerial, aeronautic, grallatory, under way, under sail, under canvas, under steam, on the wing, in flight, in orbit, bon voyage, spread the thin oar and catch the driving gale.