a. [f. STERN sb.3 + -MOST.]
1. Farthest in the rear, last in a line of ships.
1623. R. Hawkins, Voy. S. Sea, iv. 9. The Vice-admirall that should haue beene starnmost of all, was the headmost.
1727. A. Hamilton, New Acc. E. Ind., II. l. 226. I kept in the headmost Jonk, and a good Officer in the sternmost.
1838. Southey, in Q. Rev., LXII. 7. Under a press of sail, he came alongside the sternmost ship.
2. Nearest the stern.
1838. Civil Engin. & Arch. Jrnl., I. 341/2. Mr. Abbinet, with a magazine of 200 lbs. of powder, blew off about 30 feet of the sternmost part of the wreck.
1914. Glasgow Herald, 31 Aug., 7. The sternmost funnel was shot clean away.
