Abaft the beam

	See under Beam.
(Naut.)	in an arc of the horizon between a line that crosses the ship at right angles, or in the direction of her beams, and that point of the compass toward which her stern is directed.

See also: Abaft, Beam

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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