round-aftn.
/ˈraʊndˌɑːft/, /ˈraʊndˌaft/, U.S. /ˈraʊndˌæft/ Nautical. Now historical and rare.
The horizontal camber of the wing transom in a sailing ship.
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1754 M. Murray tr. H. L. Duhamel du Monceau Elements Naval Archit. v. 37 in Treat. Ship-building To compleat this ribband, the round aft of the wing transom must be set off.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Architecture The horizontal curve, or round-aft, of the first transom.
1809 W. Nicholson Brit. Encycl. VI. at Ship Building The round up of the beam in midships, or the longest, must be represented by the segment of a circle, as was lately observed for the round aft of the stern.
1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. Round-Aft, in shipbuilding, the outward curve or convex form of the stern from the wing transom upwards.
1987 P. Goodwin Constr. & Fitting Eng. Man of War i. 25/2 The round aft would be determined by the distance between the fore edge of the sternpost and the after edge of the fashion piece.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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