'Sternway' definitions:
Definition of 'Sternway'
From: GCIDE
- Sternway \Stern"way`\, n. (Naut.) The movement of a ship backward, or with her stern foremost. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'sternway'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- advance,
- angular motion,
- ascending,
- ascent,
- axial motion,
- backflowing,
- backing,
- backset,
- backsliding,
- backward motion,
- backward step,
- Brownian movement,
- career,
- climbing,
- course,
- current,
- descending,
- descent,
- downward motion,
- drift,
- driftage,
- driftway,
- ebbing,
- flight,
- flow,
- flux,
- forward motion,
- headway,
- lapse,
- leeway,
- mounting,
- oblique motion,
- ongoing,
- onrush,
- passage,
- plunging,
- progress,
- radial motion,
- random motion,
- reaction,
- recession,
- recidivation,
- recidivism,
- reentry,
- reflowing,
- refluence,
- reflux,
- regress,
- regression,
- relapse,
- retroaction,
- retrocession,
- retroflexion,
- retrogradation,
- retrogression,
- retrusion,
- return,
- rising,
- rollback,
- run,
- rush,
- set,
- setback,
- sideward motion,
- sinking,
- soaring,
- steerageway,
- stream,
- subsiding,
- throwback,
- traject,
- trajet,
- trend,
- upward motion,
- way