sternson

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English

Etymology

See stern (noun) and compare stemson.

Noun

sternson (plural sternsons)

  1. (nautical) The end of a ship's keelson, to which the sternpost is bolted.

Synonyms

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for sternson”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)