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English
Noun
sternage (plural not attested)
- (obsolete, nautical) The stern of a vessel.
1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , lines 18-19:Grapple your minds to sternage of this navy,
And leave your England as dead midnight still.
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