"sternway" meaning in English

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      "word": "headway"
    }
  ],
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        "1": "en",
        "2": "stern",
        "3": "way"
      },
      "expansion": "stern + way",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From stern + way.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sternways",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "sternway (plural sternways)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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          "parents": [
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        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Nautical",
          "orig": "en:Nautical",
          "parents": [
            "Transport",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, Penguin, published 2009, page 138:",
          "text": "The mass of iron fell half in-board upon the now stayed boat, and gave her sternway, with a splintered plank.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Movement towards the stern; backwards motion of a vessel."
      ],
      "id": "en-sternway-en-noun-vaAWftBn",
      "links": [
        [
          "nautical",
          "nautical"
        ],
        [
          "Movement",
          "movement"
        ],
        [
          "stern",
          "stern"
        ],
        [
          "backwards",
          "backwards"
        ],
        [
          "motion",
          "motion"
        ],
        [
          "vessel",
          "vessel"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(nautical) Movement towards the stern; backwards motion of a vessel."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "nautical",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sternway"
}

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  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "headway"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "stern",
        "3": "way"
      },
      "expansion": "stern + way",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From stern + way.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sternways",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "sternway (plural sternways)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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        "English countable nouns",
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        "en:Nautical"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, Penguin, published 2009, page 138:",
          "text": "The mass of iron fell half in-board upon the now stayed boat, and gave her sternway, with a splintered plank.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Movement towards the stern; backwards motion of a vessel."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "nautical",
          "nautical"
        ],
        [
          "Movement",
          "movement"
        ],
        [
          "stern",
          "stern"
        ],
        [
          "backwards",
          "backwards"
        ],
        [
          "motion",
          "motion"
        ],
        [
          "vessel",
          "vessel"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(nautical) Movement towards the stern; backwards motion of a vessel."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "nautical",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sternway"
}