Exact Match:
- astern
- (of a ship or an airplane) behind; "we dropped her astern on the end of a seven-inch manilla, and she laid comfortably on the ebb tide"
- stern foremost or backward; "the steamer went astern at half speed"
Synonyms:
- a rebours,
- a reculons,
- abaft,
- aft,
- after,
- against the grain,
- anticlockwise,
- arear,
- ass-backwards,
- away,
- back,
- backward,
- backwards,
- baft,
- counterclockwise,
- fore and aft,
- fro,
- hindward,
- hindwards,
- in reverse,
- rear,
- rearward,
- rearwards,
- retrad,
- widdershins