stern-works

His ordnance crash through the stern-works of the Spaniard; and then he sails onward, while her balls go humming harmlessly through his rigging.

Westward Ho! 2007

He it was who repaired the gilt carvings in the stern-works, and made the bulkheads for the admiral's cabin.

On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. John Masefield 1922

She _did_ resemble a _sampan_, especially about the stern-works.

A Diversity of Creatures Rudyard Kipling 1900

I watched him, half prepared to feel offended, until he had satisfied his mirth; and then, 'You must have no pity on these animals,' said he; and, plucking a switch out of a thicket, he began to lace Modestine about the stern-works, uttering a cry.

Travels With A Donkey In The Cevennes 1879

I watched him, half prepared to feel offended, until he had satisfied his mirth; and then, 'You must have no pity on these animals,' said he; and, plucking a switch out of a thicket, he began to lace Modestine about the stern-works, uttering a cry.

Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

I watched him, half prepared to feel offended, until he had satisfied his mirth; and then, "You must have no pity on these animals," said he; and, plucking a switch out of a thicket, he began to lace Modestine about the stern-works, uttering a cry.

The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

His ordnance crash through the stern-works of the Spaniard; and then he sails onward, while her balls go humming harmlessly through his rigging.

Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth Charles Kingsley 1847

(thanks to thee Bozzy Jocelin), 'his frock-skirts looped over his elbow,' skewing substantial stern-works, tramps stoutly along.

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838

"It took her plump in the stern-works, knocking her wheel and taffrail to flinders and ripping out a fair six feet of her larboard bulwarks.

Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

Jocelin), 'his frock-skirts looped over his elbow,' showing substantial stern-works, tramps stoutly along.

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838